The lectotype of Catasticta semiramis (Lucas, 1852)
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae)

Euterpe Semiramis’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 291—292). Type locality: ‘Colombie’ (Lucas, 1852: 292).

Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, with labels:
— (1) printed (on white paper with light green frame and dotted lines) ‘MUSÉUM DE PARIS’, on the back side handwritten in pencil ‘semiramis | Luc’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘305’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘CATASTÍCTA male | semiramis (Lucas) | Lectoholotype | det. J.H. Robert’.
Lectotype designated by Lamas & Bollino (2004: 13). Originally described and currently treated as a taxonomic species.


REFERENCES

Lamas, G. & M. Bollino (2004): Revisional notes on the ‘amastris’ group of Catasticta Butler, 1870 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), with descriptions of new species and subspecies. — Zootaxa 605: 1—19 (13.VIII.2004).
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.
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