Acrolophus TRETUS Kaye , 1925

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 2

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Acrolophus TRETUS Kaye, 1925

Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1924 (3&4), 413–428 [427], pl. XLV: fig. 1. Combination still valid (see Davis 1984).

Holotype, male, pinned:

Specimen data: “Palmiste | 26/6/18 ” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] and another label “ Type ” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “ Acrolophus tretus Kaye ” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label].

Remarks: This is undoubtedly the holotype collected at Palmiste, Trinidad, 26 June.1918, by Sir N. Lamont. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. XLV: fig. 1 ( Kaye 1925, Kaye & Lamont 1927).

References

Davis, D. R. (1984) Tineidae. In Heppner, J. B., ed. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 1 Micropterigoidea - Immoidea. W. Junk, The Hague.

Kaye, W. J. (1925) New species and sub-species of Trinidad Rhopalocera and Heterocera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1924 (3 - 4), 413 - 428 + plate.

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.