Chrostosoma flavothoracides, Zerny, 1912

Pinheiro, L. R. & Gaal-Haszler, S., 2015, Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status, Zootaxa 3925 (4), pp. 505-535 : 526-527

flavothoracides Zerny, 1912

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Cosmosoma intensa Rothschild, 1910: 507 (preoccupied). Lectotype male, by subsequent designation: ECUADOR, Paramba, with five labels: "Paramba, Ecuador "; " Type "; " Cosmosoma intensa Rothsch. Type "; "Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1"; and "Kb-Dia-Nr. 487 B. Kreusel dok.". One female paralectotype: COLOMBIA, Cundinamarca, Cananche, June 1903 (M. de Mathan), with two labels: a locality label with the data above, and “Rothschild bequest B.M. 1939-1” (BMNH) [examined].

Cosmosoma flavothoracides Zerny, 1912: 70 .

Current combination. Chrostosoma flavothoracides Zerny, 1912 , comb. nov.

Condition of the types. Lectotype. Abdominal tergites a bit rubbed. Paralectotype. Left antenna broken at tip, right antenna broken in its first half.

Remarks. This name was created as the objective replacement name for Cosmosoma intensa Rothschild, 1910 , a junior secondary homonym of Glaucopis intensa Walker, 1854 . By the time of the creation of C. intensa Rothschild , Walker’s name was treated in Cosmosoma by Hampson (1898), which created the homonymy. Even though the latter was transferred to Saurita by Hampson (1914), the objective replacement name C. flavothoracides for C. intensa Rothschild still applies (ICZN, article 59.3), for it has been used by Draudt (1915, 1917).

Cosmosoma intensa Rothschild was described from one male and one female, but no type designation was made. Hampson (1914) mentioned the specimen from Ecuador (the male) as the “ type ”, what constitutes a lectotype designation under article 74.5 ( ICZN, 1999).

Even though C. intensa Rothschild was described as a species, the author mentioned that it was probably a subspecies of C. flavothorax Rothschild, 1910 . This conjecture could not be investigated here, therefore C. flavothoracides remains at the species level.

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 48. 25) Calonotos acutipennis (Paralectotype); 26) Calonotos aequimaculatus (Lectotype); 27) Calonotos aequimaculatus (Paralectotype); 28) Phoenicoprocta rubriventris [sic] amazonica (Lectotype); 29) Calonotos angustipennis (Lectotype); 30) Pseudosphex deceptans (Lectotype); 31) Pseudosphex fuscus (Holotype); 32) Agyrta grandimacula (Holotype); 33) Psilopleura meridionalis (Holotype); 34) Phoenicoprocta vacillans f. nigricoxa (Lectotype); 35) Psilopleura pentheri (Holotype); 36) Sphecosoma perconstrictum (Holotype); 37) Saurita pilipennis (Lectotype); 38) Ichoria pyrrhonota (Holotype); 39) Abrochia spitzi (Lectotype); 40) Ichoria thyrassia (Holotype); 41) Autochloris vetusta (Holotype); 42) Lencotmemis [sic] vincentia (Holotype); 43) Only specimen of Heliura zonata ab. aurantiaca; 44) One of the four specimens of Aclytia reducta ab. deleta; 45) One of the eight specimens of Mesothen pyrrhina ab. derubrata; 46) Saurita clandestina (Holotype); 47) Cosmosoma exomelan (Holotype); 48) Cosmosoma flavothoracides (Lectotype). Scale bars: 1 cm.