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

Euterpe Telasco’ Lucas, 1852 (Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris. — Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris (2) 4: 290). Type locality: ‘environs de Cuzco’ (Lucas, 1852: 291).

Lectotype male, in MNHN Paris, 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 ‘3 | 49’ and green handwritten ‘Telasco, Luc’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘49’; (3) printed (on white paper in red) ‘TYPE’; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘CATASTÍCTA | telasco (H. Lucas 1852) | Lectoholotype male | det. J.H. Robert’.
Lectotype designated by Lamas (1993: 142). Treated as a taxonomic subspecies, Catasticta sisamnus telasco (Lucas, 1852) (Lamas, 1993: 142).


REFERENCES

Lamas, G. (1993): Lista comentada de los piéridos americanos descritos por J. Röber (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). — SHILAP Revta. lepid. 21 (83): 139—155 (30.IX.1993).
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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