Samea DELICATA Kaye , 1922

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 7

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211522
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scientific name	Samea DELICATA Kaye , 1922
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 67, 991–998 [996–997], pl. I: fig. 22. Combination still valid (see Munroe 1995).

Holotype, male, pinned: also paratype Ƥ, pinned.

Specimen data: Holotype: No locality label. “ Type ” [Handwritten]. “ Type | H.T.” [Round label with red border]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] with label with “ Type ” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “ Samea delicata Kaye ” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label]. “Hileithia approprialis | Dyar male | Det. M.J.W.Cock 2002” [Printed].

Remarks: This specimen collected in Trinidad by Sir N. Lamont is undoubtedly the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. I: fig. 22 ( Kaye 1922, Kaye & Lamont 1927). Kaye & Lamont (1927) give the type locality as “Palmiste”.