Theclinae, Swainson, 1831

Bland, Keith P., 2019, Name-bearing types of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 4559 (1), pp. 57-89 : 82

Theclinae

Leptomyrina HANDMANI Gifford, 1965

A List of the Butterflies of Malawi, The Society of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 177 pp. [53–54], plate D, figure 64 and 65. Combination still valid (see Bridges, 1988c; Ackery, Smith and Vane-Wright, 1995).

Holotype, male, pinned (abdomen missing); also allotype ♀ and paratype ♂, both pinned. Specimen data: Specimen a ♂: “ Zomba mntn. | March 1955 | Nyasaland” verso “ ♂ D.R.G.” [Handwritten (by Gifford)]. “ Leptomyrina | handmani ♂ | det. D.R.Gifford | 1960 | Holotype ” [Handwritten (by Gifford)]. “Type” [Printed on red-bordered circular label]. No registration label. Specimen b: “LB [Limbe] 1-1-60 ” [Handwritten in pencil on pink paper]. “ Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. C.N.Holmes 1990” [Handwritten (by Holmes)]. “ ALLOTYPE ♀ | Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. | S.I.Baldwin 1990” [Handwritten (by Baldwin)]. No registration label. Specimen c: “Mitzidi Hill, | Blantyre, NYASALAND. | elev. 4000’. | Date 17-1-60. | J.D.HANDMAN” [Handwritten and Printed]. “Para- | type” [Round, yellow-bordered label]. “ Paratype of | Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. S.I.Baldwin, 1990 | & C.W.N.Holmes ” [Handwritten (by Baldwin)]. No registration label. Remarks: These specimens are unambiguously the types. The holotype ♂ and allotype ♀ were initially registered (1961.12.8) as “ Leptomyrina griselda Gifford ” and appear under this name in Gifford’s draft version of his “Butterflies of Malawi”. Gifford changed the name to handmani before describing them in 1965.