Bucculatrix MEREI

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 3

Bucculatrix MEREI Pelham-Clinton, 1967

Entomologist’s Gazette, 18 (3&4), 155–158 [155], figs. 1–3, pl. 6: fig. 1–3.

Junior subjective synonym of Bucculatrix humiliell a Herrich - Schäffer, 1855 (see Bradley 2000).

Holotype, male, pinned (abdomen on Genitalia slide M.1482/ L.0076): also allotype Ƥ, pinned.

Specimen data: Holotype: “24303” [on specimen pin]. “Aviemore, Inv. | 8 Sep 1966 | E.C.P.-C. No. 24303” [Printed & Handwritten]. “[Genitalia prep.] M.1482 [Red] | 24303 [Black]” [Typewritten]. “ Type ” [Round label with red border]. “ Bucculatrix | merei P-C | 1967 3 | det. E.C.Pelham-Clinton” [Handwritten]. “ RSM 1967.12” [Typewritten].

Remarks: The holotype and allotype were collected by G. E. Woodroffe. A 3 paratype from Forres, Morayshire is in BM(NH). Black and white photographs of the holotype 3, paratype 3, and allotype Ƥ are shown in Pl. 6, figs. 1–3 and drawings of 3 (paratype) and Ƥ (allotype) genitalia in figs. 1–3 ( Pelham-Clinton 1967). The species is named in honour of Robin Mere whose lepidoptera collection is in the National Museums of Scotland.