The types of Leptophobia eleusis (Lucas, 1852)
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae)

‘Pieris Eleusis’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 331—332). Type locality: ‘Colombie’ (Lucas, 1852: 332).

Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, designated by Abadjiev (2005: 130), with labels:

— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Colombie | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side sticked, handwritten ‘Pieris | eleusis, Bd.’; (2) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (5) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’.

Paralectotype male, in MNHN Paris, with labels:

— (1) printed (on olive paper) ‘MUSEUM DE PARIS | AMÉRIQUE MÉRID | ET COLOMBIE | PARZUDACKI 1842’; (2) printed (on white paper in red) ‘COTYPE’; (3) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’; (4) circle (green above, handwritten ‘2 | [illegible]’.

Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species — Leptophobia eleusis (Lucas, 1852).


REFERENCES

Abadjiev, S. P. (2005): The primary types of Neotropical Pierinae in the collection of Laboratoire d’Entomologie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Pieridae). — Atalanta 36 (1/2): 127—139, col. pls 3—5.
Lucas, P. H. (1852): Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 189—198, 290—295, 327.