The types of Liptena augusta Suffert, 1904 and Liptena subundularis (Staudinger, 1892) (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae) Author Libert, Michel text Metamorphosis 2021 2021-05-08 32 1 13 14 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/met.v32i1.2 journal article 10.4314/met.v32i1.2 2307-5031 14118512 ABBBFC07-2EB8-4D69-AEE8-B933CE174EEF Liptena subundularis (Staudinger, 1892) Stempffer (1957) attributed the three females from Bipindi to L. augusta when he reinstated this species, but they are clearly females of L. subundularis . The description of this species is based on "several" males from Gabon (Ogowe, leg . Mocquerys ) and one female from Cameroon [Victoria (now Limbe ), leg . Teusz ]. Here again, Stempffer et al. (1974: 156) considered that "Staudinger’s types of [ L subundularis ] were mostly destroyed in the last war". But they found in the collection of the London Museum a male collected in Ogowe by Mocquerys “which is believed to be one of the original series” and which bears an “Origin” label [like those that Staudinger associated with his typical material], and they designated it as a lectotype . Five of Staudinger's syntypes have also been rediscovered in the Berlin Museum [ four males from Ogowe and the female from Victoria). Figure 1 – Male lectotype of Liptena augusta with labels. Figure 2 – Male genitalia of ♂ lectotype of Liptena augusta (prép. Libert, 120-030) – A : right lateral view; B : ventral view of sternites 7 & 8; C : dorsal view of uncus. D : reproduction of Fig. 4 in Stempffer 1957 . One of the males (the one with the best drawn underside) bears a label indicating that it is illustrated by Grose-Smith (1892 pl. XVIII, Figs 9 & 10). Grose-Smith’s publication offers "photographic representations of the type specimens in the (Berlin Museum)”, and one could conclude that the male illustrated by Grose-Smith is the type. But the lectotype designated by Stempffer et al . (1974) is also a syntype , from the same locality, and it was furthermore, dissected by one of the authors (Bennett), and it does not seem justified to reverse this designation.