Chesias rufata

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.275866

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211565

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Chesias rufata
status

 

Chesias rufata View in CoL SCOTICA Richardson, 1952

Entomologist’s Record & Journal of Variation, 64 (10), 269–272[271]. Combination still valid (see Bradley 2000).

Holotype, female, pinned:

Specimen data: “x Aviemore | vii. 1947 | A.Richardson” [Printed label except for handwritten date.] “ TYPE | ENT. | REC. | LXIV | 260” [Handwritten (by Richardson)]. “ CHESIAS RUFATA , Fab., ssp. SCOTICA | AVIEMORE, INVERNESS, bred vi. 47 | Ent. Rec. 64 1952 p.271” [Typewritten cabinet label from A. Richardson’s collection].

Remarks: This specimen, which was standing over the above cabinet label in Austin Richardson’s collection is undoubtedly that described by him ( Richardson 1952).

Bradley, J. D. (2000) Checklist of Lepidoptera Recorded from the British Isles. (2 nd Edition (revised )). D. J. Bradley & M. J. Bradley, Fordingbridge and Newent.

Richardson, A. (1952) New varieties of British Lepidoptera. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 64 (10), 269 - 272.

ENT

Ministry of Natural Resources

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

SubFamily

Larentiinae

Genus

Chesias