jordani Zerny, 1912

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Gymnelia baroni Rothschild, 1911: 28 . (preoccupied). Lectotype ♂ [by subsequent designation]: ECUADOR, Zamora, 3,000–4,000 ft (O. T. Baron); with six labels: “ Type ”; “ Gymnelia baroni Type Rothsch.”; “Zamora, Ecuador, 3–4000 ft., O. T. Baron”; “Rothschild bequest B. M. 1939-1”; “Kb-Dia-Nr. 306 B. Kreusel dok.”; and “BMNH(E) 1475613”. One ♀ paralectotype: PERU, Cerro de Pasco, Huancabamba (E. Boettger); with two labels: a locality label with the information above, and “Rothschild bequest B. M. 1939-1” (BMNH) [examined].

Gymnelia jordani Zerny, 1912a: 58 .

Gymnelia ottonis Rothschild, 1913: 470, pl. 13, fig. 21; Hampson, 1914: 115 (unnecessary replacement name).

Current combination. Autochloris jordani (Zerny, 1912a), comb. nov.

Condition of the types. Lectotype. Wings slightly worn. Paralectotype. Left antenna missing, wings slightly worn.

Remarks. Gymnelia jordani was proposed as the objective replacement name for Gymnelia baroni Rotschild, 1911 . The latter is both a junior primary homonym of Gymnelia baroni Rothschild, 1910 —subsequently transferred to Dasysphinx Felder, 1874 by Hampson (1914) —and a junior secondary homonym of Cosmosoma baroni Rothschild, 1911, transferred to Gymnelia by Hampson (1914: 119)].

The new combination for this taxon here proposed originates from the inclusion of the type species of Gymnelia, G. l a e n n u s Walker, 1854, in Autochloris Hübner, [1819], making the former a junior subjective synonym of the latter. The adequacy of this arrangement could not be evaluated.