Cleptidea buyssoni (Ducke, 1905)

Cleptes aurora var. buyssoni Ducke, 1905: 29 . Holotype ♂; Brazil: Oyapook (MNHN).

Cleptes aurora var. dubuyssoni Ducke, 1913: 12 . Unnecessary replacement name for Cleptes buyssoni Ducke, 1905 .

Cleptidea buyssoni (Ducke, 1905): Kimsey (1981).

Cleptidea dubuyssoni: Kimsey (1986b); Kimsey & Bohart (1991); Móczár (1996a, 1996b); Lucena et al. (2024: 55).

Ducke (1913) replaced the name Cleptes buyssoni Ducke, 1905 with Ces. dubuyssoni, erroneously assuming it to be a junior homonym of “ Cleptes buyssoni … Semenow, 1891 ”. This replacement is unnecessary, as Semenow’s species, Cleptes buyssonis Semenow, 1892, is actually spelled differently (Rosa et al. 2017), and it is therefore not a homonym of Ces. buyssoni Ducke. Cleptidea dubuyssoni (Ducke, 1913) must thus be regarded as an objective junior synonym of Cleptidea buyssoni (Ducke, 1905) .