Lesbia aequatorialis Boucard, 1893

1893 Humming Bird 3: 6.

Now Lesbia victoriae victoriae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) .

See Zimmer, 1951: 53-54.

Syntype: MHNG 868.051, adult male, collected in Ecuador at Rio Napo by Buckley in 1880. From the A. Vaucher collection, acquired by the MHNG in 1941.

Comments: Boucard obtained “ over one hundred ” specimens collected together, but he did not specify which ones constitute the type series (Boucard, 1893: 6). We follow here the interpretation of Greenway (1978: 190) who considered an AMHN specimen from the same locality, date, and collector, as a syntype.