‘
Pieris Peruviana’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 327—328). Type locality: ‘Pérou (Cuzco)’ (Lucas, 1852: 328).
Holotype male, in MNHN Paris, by monotypy, 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: green with black lines handwritten ‘peruviana | Luca | Pérou | Cl. Gay’; (2)printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) circle printed (on white paper with red frame) ‘Holo- | type’.
Treated as a taxonomic subspecies,
Melete lycimnia peruviana (Lucas, 1852) (Lamas, 1990: 1).
REFERENCES
Lamas, G. (1990): On the identity of
Pieris peruviana Lucas, 1852 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). — Publ. Mus. Hist. nat. UNMSM (Lima) (A) 34: 1—2 (15.IX.1990).
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.
