Crocomela erectistria (Warren, 1904)

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 457

Crocomela erectistria (Warren, 1904)

Josia erectistria Warren, 1904a: 17 .

Josiomorpha elisa Druce, 1911c: 718 . — Type locality: Ecuador, [Tungurahua], Banos, Rio Pastaza. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Ecuador, [Tungurahua], Baños.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 2 female syntypes ( BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE) .

REMARK

The female syntype labeled TYPE is also labelled “ Banos 12.IX.99 Peru (Haensch) ” and “ Josia erectistria Type ♀ Warr[en] ”. A male specimen is also labeled “ Type ” (round red label) ; “ Balzapamba, Peru, 750m, V.99 (Haensch) ” and “ Josia erectistria Type ♂ Warr[en] ”. Even if the male specimen is labeled Type, it is not a syntype because in the original description Warren described the species from two females from the type locality of Baños. In the original description, the localities Baños and Balzapamba are located in Ecuador. On the labels, they are located in Peru. The name of the first locality is present in both countries and creates a confusion about the type locality. However, the specimens were collected by Richard Haensch, who described ( Haensch 1903) his entomological expedition in Ecuador between 1899 and 1900 and cited Baños and Balzapamba from this country .