Sylepta

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 8

Sylepta [sic] NIGRALIS Kaye, 1925

Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1924 (3 & 4), 413–428 [424], pl. XLV: fig. 17. Current accepted combination: Syllepte nigralis Kaye, 1925 (see Munroe 1995).

Holotype, female, pinned: also paratype Ƥ, pinned.

Specimen data: Holotype: “V.Vale | 1/1/22 ” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “ Type | H.T.” [Round, red bordered]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] and another label “ Type ” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “ Sylepta nigralis Kaye ” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label].

Remarks: This specimen collected at Verdant Vale, Trinidad, 1 January 1922, by Sir N. Lamont, is unambiguously the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. XLV: fig. 17 ( Kaye 1925, Kaye & Lamont 1927).