Claphe SIMILAVIS 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 : 9

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211540
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scientific name	Claphe SIMILAVIS Kaye , 1925
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Claphe SIMILAVIS Kaye, 1925 View in CoL

Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1924 (3&4), 413–428 [423], pl. XLV: fig. 12. Current accepted combination: Euglyphis similavis ( Kaye, 1925) (see Becker & Heppner 1996).

Holotype, male, pinned:

Specimen data: “San Fdo. | 22/2/22 ” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] with label with “ Type ” [Handwritten in red ink] glued to it. “ Claphe similavis Kaye ” [Handwritten Lamont cabinet label].

Remarks: This specimen collected at San Fernando, Trinidad, by Sir N. Lamont on 22nd February 1922 is unambiguously the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. XLV: fig. 12 ( Kaye 1925, Kaye & Lamont 1927).

References

Becker, V. O. & Heppner, J. B. (1996) Lasiocampidae pp. 19 - 27. In Heppner, J. B., ed. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4 B. Drepanioidea - Bombycoidea - Sphingoidea. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Florida, U. S. A.

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.