Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status
Author
Pinheiro, L. R.
Author
Gaal-Haszler, S.
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flavothoracides
Zerny, 1912
(
Fig. 48
)
Cosmosoma intensa
Rothschild, 1910
: 507
(preoccupied).
Lectotype
male, by subsequent designation:
ECUADOR
, Paramba, with five labels: "Paramba,
Ecuador
"; "
Type
"; "
Cosmosoma intensa Rothsch.
Type
"; "Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1"; and "Kb-Dia-Nr. 487 B. Kreusel dok.". One female
paralectotype
:
COLOMBIA
, Cundinamarca, Cananche,
June 1903
(M. de Mathan), with two labels: a locality label with the data above, and “Rothschild bequest B.M. 1939-1” (BMNH) [examined].
Cosmosoma flavothoracides
Zerny, 1912: 70
.
Current combination.
Chrostosoma flavothoracides
Zerny, 1912
,
comb. nov.
Condition of the
types
.
Lectotype
.
Abdominal tergites a bit rubbed.
Paralectotype
.
Left antenna broken at tip, right antenna broken in its first half.
Remarks.
This name was created as the objective replacement name for
Cosmosoma intensa
Rothschild, 1910
,
a
junior secondary homonym of
Glaucopis intensa
Walker, 1854
. By the time of the creation of
C. intensa
Rothschild
, Walker’s name was treated in
Cosmosoma
by
Hampson (1898)
, which created the homonymy. Even though the latter was transferred to
Saurita
by
Hampson (1914)
, the objective replacement name
C. flavothoracides
for
C. intensa
Rothschild
still applies (ICZN, article 59.3), for it has been used by Draudt (1915, 1917).
Cosmosoma intensa
Rothschild
was described from one male and one female, but no
type
designation was made.
Hampson (1914)
mentioned the specimen from
Ecuador
(the male) as the “
type
”, what constitutes a
lectotype
designation under article 74.5 (
ICZN, 1999
).
Even though
C. intensa
Rothschild
was described as a species, the author mentioned that it was probably a subspecies of
C. flavothorax
Rothschild, 1910
. This conjecture could not be investigated here, therefore
C. flavothoracides
remains at the species level.