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 SPINOSA Clayton, 2008

Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation, 120 ( 5), 199–203 [ 202], pl. K: fig. 3 & 4, fig. 3. Combination still valid.

Holotype, male, pinned (Abdomen on slide G 220). also paratype 3, pinned (Abdomen on slide G 221).

Specimen data: Holotype; “Genitalia slide”[On stage, printed]. “ Type ” [Round, red- bordered label]. “ Palpita | spinosa | Fiji, Viti Levu | Suva | 029/ 7076 | J.Clayton | 27.vii. [ 19] 91 201 ”[Printed]. “J.CLAYTON | NMSZ 2009.004 ” [Printed]. Genitalia slide with same data except “ holotype | G 220 I 201.”

Remarks: These specimens are undoubtedly the holotype and paratype of P. s p i n o s a Clayton, 2008. They are illustrated in colour in Pl. K: fig. 3 & 4, respectively, and a male genital valve and the aedeagus are depicted by Clayton ( 2008: fig. 3).