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Pieris Helena’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 332—333). Type locality: ‘environs de Quito’ (Lucas, 1852: 333).
Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, designated by Abadjiev (2005: 131), with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Quito | Pérou | 1851 | mr. Mougrand | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side handwritten in pencil ‘helena | Luc’ and circle sticked, handwritten ‘319 | 51’; (2) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (3) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’.
Paralectotype female, in MNHN Paris, with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Quito | Pérou | 1859 | mr. Mougrand | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side handwritten in pencil ‘helena | Luc’ and circle sticked, handwritten ‘358 | 51’; (2) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (3) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’.
Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species.
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.
