Lamontia CALIBANA 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 : 4

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211506
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scientific name	Lamontia CALIBANA Kaye 1922
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Lamontia CALIBANA Kaye 1922 View in CoL

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 67, 991–998 [997], pl. I: fig. 18.

Current accepted combination: Monalita calibana ( Kaye, 1922) (see Tarmann 1995).

Holotype, female, pinned:

Specimen data: “Rock | 1/1/18 ” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] with label with “ TYPE ” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “ Lamontia calibana Kaye ” [Handwritten Lamont cainet label].

Remarks: This specimen collected by Sir N. Lamont at Rock, Trinidad on 1 January 1918 is unambiguously the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. I: fig. 18 ( Kaye 1922, Kaye & Lamont 1927). Lamontia calibana Kaye is the type species of the genus Lamontia Kaye, 1922 by monotypy. Kaye & Lamont (1927) give the type locality as “Rock-Penal Road”, Trinidad.

References

Kaye, W. J. (1922) New species of Trinidad Moths. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 67, 991 - 998 + plate I.

Kaye, W. J. & Lamont, N. (1927) A catalogue of the Trinidad Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths). Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad & Tobago, Port-of-Spain. No. 3, 1927, xv + 144 pp., 2 pls.

Tarmann, G. M. (1995) Zygaenidae pp. 116 - 118. In Heppner, J. B., ed. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 2. Hyblaeoidea - Pyraloidea - Tortricoidea. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Florida, U. S. A.