Palpita

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 8

Palpita VITIENSIS Clayton, 2008

Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation, 120 ( 5), 199–203 [ 200], pl. K: figs. 1 & 2, fig 1. Combination still valid.

Holotype, male, pinned (Abdomen on slide G 224). also paratype 3, pinned (Abdomen on slide G 225).

Specimen data: Holotype; “Genitalia slide”[On stage, printed]. “Holo-type”[Round, red-bordered label]. “ Palpita | vitinensis | Fiji, Viti Levu | Savura Creek | 028/ 6781 | J.Clayton | 6.iii. [ 19] 92 655 ”[Printed]. “J.CLAYTON | NMSZ 2009.004 ”[Printed]. Genitalia slide with same data except “ holotype | G 224 I 655.”

Remarks: These specimens of P. vitiensis are undoubtedly the holotype and paratype and are illustrated in colour by Clayton ( 2008: Pl. K: figs. 1 & 2). A male genital valve and the aedeagus are depicted in fig. 1.