Artona

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 4-5

Artona QUADRIMACULATA Moore, 1879

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, 387–417[390], pl. xxxii–xxxiv.

Current accepted combination: Brachartona quadrimaculata ( Moore, 1879) (see Tremewan 1973).

Syntype, female, pinned:

Specimen Data: “ Artona | 4 maculata | (type) Moore” [Handwritten]. “B.M. duplicate | 1912-53 | 842” [Printed]. “4 maculata Moore” [Handwritten].

Remarks: This specimen was transferred to the museum in 1912 as part of the BM(NH)’s Duplicate Disposal Scheme. The label implies that this specimen was one of the original type series. Moore (1879) described the species from specimens in both his own collection and that of Major A. M. Lang. The type locality is given as “Masuri, N.W.Himalayas.” As no holotype was designated in the original or subsequent texts, this specimen is a syntype.