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
Metalectra PIPERATA
Kaye
, 1925
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London
,
1924
(3 & 4), 413–428[421], pl. XLV: fig. 4. Combination still valid (see
Poole 1989
).
Holotype
, male, pinned:
Specimen data
: “Palmiste |
18/5/21
” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “
Metalectra
sp. [Handwritten (by Tams)] | W.H.T.Tams det.” [Printed]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950.16” [Printed] with label with “
TYPE
” [Handwritten in red ink], glued to it. “
Metalectra piperata Kaye
” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label]. Label by M.J.W.Cock. 1977, justifying
holotype
status of species.
Remarks
: This specimen collected at Palmiste,
Trinidad
on
18th May 1921
by Sir N. Lamont is unambiguously the
holotype
. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. XLV: fig. 4 (
Kaye 1925
,
Kaye & Lamont 1927
).
Poole (1989)
erroneously suggests that the [holo]
type
is in the BM(NH).