‘Euterpe Modesta’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 292—294). Type locality: ‘environs de Cuzco’ (Lucas, 1852: 294).
Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, designated by Abadjiev (2005: 133), with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and dotted lines) ‘Cuzco | Pérou | 1849 | Cl. Gay | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side sticked: white circle handwritten ‘1 | 49’ and white handwritten in pencil ‘E. modesta | Luc.’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘297’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’; (5) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘CATASTÍCTA | modesta modesta | (Lucas 1852) | TYPE | det. J.H. Robert’.
Type material originally not mentioned (Lucas, 1852: 292—294). Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species —
Catasticta modesta (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.
