Prionochilus parsonsi McGregor, 1927

1927 The Philippine Journal of Science. 32: 520.

Now Prionochilus olivaceus parsonsi McGregor, 1927 .

See Greenway et al., 1967: 172.

Paratype: MHNG 889.027, adult female, collected in the Philippines (Malinao, Tayabas province, Luzon) on 9 January 1926 by Francisco Rivera. From the William Parsons collection, acquired by the MHNG in 1947 (Baud, 1976, 1978).

Comment: The holotype, a male collected on the same date by the same collector, was kept in the collection of the “Bureau of Science”, Manila (specimen number 13345). That collection built by Richard C. McGregor was destroyed by war in 1945 (Dickinson et al., 1991).