Name-bearing types of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Author
Bland, Keith P.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-02-19
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Coliadinae
Pieris
PYRO
Godart
,
in
Latreille & Godart
,
1819
Encyclopédie Méthodique Histoire Naturelle [Zoologie]
9
.
Entomologie
i–328 [137]. Current accepted combination:
Pyrisitia pyro
(Godart,
in
Latreille & Godart, 1819
)
(see
Lamas, 2004
).
Holotype
, female, pinned.
Specimen data
: “pyro” [Handwritten (by Godart)]. “Dufresne” [Printed] on
verso
“
Pieris
| Pyro | 53” [Handwritten] “TYPE” [Oval pink label]. “Dufresne |
1936-50
| 62” on
verso
“Terias
pyro Godart
| TYPE” [Handwritten (by Grimshaw)].
Remarks
: Originally described from a single specimen in the Dufresne collection. This is that specimen and is thus the
holotype
. Country of origin is not specified.
Bridges (1988b)
gives the type locality as “
Haiti
, S.Domingo” as it is now known to be endemic to Hispaniola (
Haiti
and
Dominican Republic
).
Holotype
is illustrated by
Grimshaw (1897, figure 7)
.