Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Author
Bland, Keith P.
text
Zootaxa
2010
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1
22
journal article
37123
10.5281/zenodo.275866
bfdc24a8-b88c-42df-a177-4e25803425b4
1175-5326
275866
Polythlipta
DIVARICATA
Moore, 1886
The
Lepidoptera
of
Ceylon
, Vol.
3
, part xii, 1–578 [311], pl. 179: fig. 16.
Syntype
, female, pinned:
Specimen data
: “
Ceylon
”
verso
“
Polythlipta
| Divaricata |
type
Moore” [Handwritten]. “BM. duplate |
1912-53
| 1594” [Printed]
verso
“
Polythlipta
| divaricata, Moore” [Handwritten (by Grimshaw)]. “Syn |
type
” [Round, red-bordered label].
Remarks
: The species is illustrated in colour on Pl. 179: fig. 16 (
Moore 1886
). It was received from BM(NH) as a
syntype
in 1912. The dates of publication of various parts of Moore’s paper are discussed by
Griffin (1939)
.