‘
Andina coropunæ, new species’ Dyar, 1913 (Results of the Yale Peruvian expediton of 1911. Lepidoptera. — Proceedings of the United States National Museum 45 (2006): 629). Type locality: ‘Coropuna, 16,000 to 17,000 feet’ (Dyar, 1913: 629).
Holotype male, by monotypy, in USNM Washington DC, with labels:
— (1) printed (on white paper) ‘Coropuna | 16—17000ft. | Oct,1911 | YalePeruvExp’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Andina | coropunae | Type Dyar’; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions (on white paper, black framed) ‘male genitalia on | slide 156 1951 | W.D.F. J.H.’; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions (on red paper) ‘Type | No.15602 | U.S.N.M.’; (5) printed with handwritten inscriptions (on yellow paper) ‘GART | specimen ID: | 01655 | Exemplar + Etiketten | dokumentiert | specimen + label | data documented | X.2004’.
The holotype of
Piercolias coropunae was illustrated subsequently by Field & Herrera (1977: 48: Fig. 30; 49: Fig. 42). Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species (Lamas, 2004: 115).
REFERENCES
Dyar, H. G. (1913): Results of the Yale Peruvian expediton of 1911. Lepidoptera. — Proceedings of the United States National Museum 45 (2006): 627—649 (22.VII.1913).
Field, W. D. & J. Herrera (1977): The Pierid Butterflies of the Genera
Hypsochila Ureta,
Phulia Herrich-Schäffer,
Infraphulia Field,
Pierphulia Field, and
Piercolias Staudinger. — Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 232: i—iii, 1—64.
Lamas, G. (2004): Pieridae, pp. 99—117. In: Lamas, G. (Ed.), Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea — Papilionoidea. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Volume 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville (12.XI.2004).
