Rifargia BRUNNIPENNIS Kaye , 1922

Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 2394, pp. 1-22 : 12

Rifargia BRUNNIPENNIS Kaye, 1922

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 67, 991–998[992], pl. I: fig. 11.

Junior subjective synonym of Dicentria violascens (Herrich - Schäffer, 1811) according to M.J.W. Cock ( pers. comm.).

Holotype, female, pinned:

Specimen data: “Palmiste | 25/12/20 ” [Handwritten (by Lamont)]. “ Type ” [Handwritten in same hand]. “ Rifargia brunnipennis Kaye ” [Handwritten (not Lamont)]. “Lamont | Collection | 1950-16” [Printed] with label with “ TYPE ” [Handwritten in red ink], glued to it. “ Rifargia brunnipennis Kaye 1922 | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p.992, Pl. 1, | fig.11. Type e coll. Lamont, | Reg. No. 1950.16” [Typewritten]. “ Dicentria violascens | Herrich-Schäffer female | Det. M.J.W.Cock. 2003” [Printed on green-backed card].

Remarks: This specimen from Palmiste, Trinidad is unambiguously the holotype. It is illustrated in colour in Pl. I: fig. 11 ( Kaye 1922, Kaye & Lamont 1927).