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Euterpe Cæsarea’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 194—195). Type locality: ‘Colombie’ (Lucas, 1852: 195).
? Syntype male, in MNHN Paris, with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and dotted lines) ‘Quito | Pérou | 1851 | Echange Boisduval | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side sticked: circle handwritten ‘318 | 51’; (2) handwritten (on green paper with double black frame and lines) ‘Caesarea, Luc. (Koll. | Quito’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) circle printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE ?’.
This specimen is with uncertain ‘type’ status. Either ‘Colombie’ is a mistake of Lucas, or this specimen is not from the original type series. The original description is based on female. Currently
Pereute leucodrosime caesarea (Lucas, 1852).
REFERENCES
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.
