Anaitis plagiata

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

Anaitis plagiata SCOTICA Richardson, 1952

Entomologist’s Record & Journal of Variation, 64 ( 10), 269–272 [ 269], pl. XI: fig. 18.

Current accepted combination: Aplocera plagiata scotica ( Richardson, 1952) (see Bradley 2000).

Holotype, female, pinned:

Specimen data: “Dalwhinnie | viii. 1946 | A.Richardson” [Printed label, except for handwritten date.] “ TYPE | ENT. | REC. | LXIV | 260 ” [Handwritten (by Richardson)]. “ ANAITIS PLAGIATA , L., ssp. SCOTICA | DALWHINNIE | INVERNESS, viii. 46. | Ent. Rec. 64 1952 p. 269.” [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 the specimen described by him and illustrated in Pl. XI: fig. 18 ( Richardson 1952).