Alecton discoidalis Laporte

Alecton discoidalis Laporte 1833: 135

DISTRIBUTION: CUBA: Cienfuegos, La Habana, Las Tunas, Matanzas (Laporte 1833; Laporte 1840; Motschulsky 1953; Jacquelin du Val 1857; Lacordaire 1857; Gemminger & de Harold 1869; Gundlach 1891; Gorham 1898; E. Olivier 1907, 1909a, 1910, 1911a, 1912b; Leng & Mutchler 1914, 1922; Mutchler 1923a; Blackwelder 1945; Green 1959; McDermott 1964, 1966; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974; Peck 2005; Branham 2006; Madruga Rios & Hernández Quinta 2010; Madruga 2018; Madruga & de Armas 2019; Madruga & Branham 2020)

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba

TYPE DEPOSITORY: MNHN

REMARKS: The name Alecton dorsalis was only used a few times (Lacordaire (1857), Leng & Mutchler (1922), McDermott (1966), Blackwelder (1945), Blackwelder & Arnett (1974)). There is no evidence of a species with that particular name.