Catasticta truncata Lathy & Rosenberg, 1912

Bollino, Maurizio & Costa, Mauro, 2007, An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s. l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela, Zootaxa 1469, pp. 1-42 : 17

Catasticta truncata Lathy & Rosenberg, 1912 (TL: [ Ecuador, Loja] “ Venezuela, Mérida”)

(= xanthotaenia Röber, 1924 , TL: Ecuador)

This species was described from at least one male labeled “Mérida”, and Abadjiev (2005) designated a lectotype. Röber (1924) described Catasticta xanthotaenia from Ecuador, and Lamas (1993) considered it to be a subspecies of truncata . Subsequent authors considered both taxa as subspecies of truncata ( Reissinger, 1972; Lamas, 2004), or considered xanthotaenia to be a synonym of truncata ( Eitschberger & Racheli, 1998) . No one noted that the type locality of truncata might be wrong. Catasticta truncata is a highly localized and specialized species, restricted to dry areas of southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru (Lamas, pers. comm.). As no Venezuelan specimens of the species are known except for the questionably labeled lectotype, we change the type locality of the species to southern Ecuador (Loja Province).