The syntype of Ganyra josephina (Godart, 1819)
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae)

‘136. Piéride Joséphine... Pieris Josephina’ Godart, 1819 (In: Latreille & Godart, Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes 9 (1): 115, 158). Type locality: Unknown [originally not stated] (Godart, 1819: 158).

? Syntype male, in MNHN Paris, with labels:
— (1) printed (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side handwritten in pencil ‘josephina | God.’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Type ss doute | à E Simbourg’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’.
A specimen with uncertain status. Originally described from specimens belonging to M. Dufresne (Godart, 1819: 158). Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species — Ganyra josephina (Godart, 1819).


REFERENCES

Godart, J. B. (1819): In: Latreille, P. A. & J. B. Godart, Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes 9 (1): 13—328.
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