Eumichtis lichenea

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 18

Eumichtis lichenea SCILLONEA Richardson, 1958

Entomologist’s Gazette 9 (3), 128–130[129], pl. IX: fig. 4 & 5.

Current accepted combination: Polymixis lichenea scillonea ( Richardson, 1958) (see Bradley 2000).

Holotype, male, pinned: also allotype Ƥ, pinned.

Specimen data: Holotype: “Tresco | ix 1957 | A.Richardson” [Printed label except for handwritten date]. “ TYPE ” [Handwritten (by Richardson)]. “ EUMICHTIS LICHENEA , Hb., ssp. SCILLONEA | TRESCO, SCILLY, ix. 57 | Ent. Gaz. 9 1958 p. 129” [Typewritten cabinet label from A. Richardson’s collection].

Remarks: This specimen which was standing over the above cabinet label in Austin Richardson’s collection is undoubtedly the type and described and illustrated by him in ( Richardson 1958: Pl. IX: fig. 4). The allotype was bred in x. 1957 from wild larva taken at Tresco. Four additional paratypes have not yet been located in Richardson’s collection, and 4 more should be at the BM(NH).