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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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4559.1.2
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Alaena NYASSA
Hewitson, 1877
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine
14
, 5-6.
Remarks
: NMS Registration No. 1961.12 was a small collection of butterfly
types
from
Nyasaland
donated by
Dr.D.R.Gifford. This donation included a
neallotype
female of
Alaena nyassa
Hewitson
– such a designation does not appear to have been published (see
Gifford, 1965
), nor is there an appropriately labelled specimen.