The types of Ganyra phaloe (Godart, 1819)
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae)

‘131. Piéride Phaloé... Pieris Phaloe’ Godart, 1819 (In: Latreille & Godart, Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes 9 (1): 115, 156—157). Type locality: ‘Brésil’ (Godart, 1819: 157).

Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, designated by Abadjiev (2005: 134—135), with labels:
— (1) printed (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side sticked, handwritten ‘Phaloe’; (2) handwritten (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Brésil’; (3) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Pieris | phaloe Godart | Encycl. méth., vol. 9, | p. 156 (P. Viette 4-1954)’; (4) printed (on red paper) ‘TYPE’; (5) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’; (6) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’.
Paralectotypes male, female with labels:
[male] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Brésil | mr. Delalande | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side green label sticked, handwritten ‘Endeis God. | Bré | Delalande’; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE | de Godart’; (3) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’.
[female] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper with light green frame and lines) ‘Brésil | MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side green label sticked, handwritten ‘P. Phaloe, God. | female ansia, Boisd. | Bresil.’; (2) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’.
Type material originally not stated (Godart, 1819: 156—157). 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.
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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