Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Author
Bland, Keith P.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2394
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275866
bfdc24a8-b88c-42df-a177-4e25803425b4
1175-5326
275866
Palpita
VITIENSIS
Clayton,
2008
Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation
,
120
(
5
),
199–203
[
200
], pl. K: figs.
1
&
2
, fig
1
. Combination still valid.
Holotype
, male, pinned (Abdomen on slide G
224
). also
paratype
3
, pinned (Abdomen on slide G
225
).
Specimen data:
Holotype
;
“Genitalia slide”[On stage, printed]. “Holo-type”[Round, red-bordered label]. “
Palpita
| vitinensis |
Fiji
,
Viti
Levu | Savura Creek | 028/
6781
| J.Clayton |
6
.iii.
[
19
]
92
655
”[Printed]. “J.CLAYTON |
NMSZ
2009.004
”[Printed]. Genitalia slide with same data except “
holotype
| G
224
I
655
.”
Remarks:
These specimens of
P. vitiensis
are undoubtedly the
holotype
and
paratype
and are illustrated in colour by
Clayton (
2008
: Pl. K: figs.
1
&
2
)
. A male genital valve and the aedeagus are depicted in fig.
1
.