Crocisa interrupta Vachal 1903

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Abstract

Crocisa interrupta Vachal, 1903 (Figs 29; 30) Crocisa interrupta Vachal, 1903a: 382. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Equatorial Guinea • 1♂ (paralectotype by present designation); Congo, Bata; 25.IX.1897; Bouyssou leg.; MNHN-EY-EY58553. Ghana • 1♀ (lectotype by present designation); Acra [Accra]; MNHN-EY-EY58552. CURRENT STATUS. — Thyreus interruptus (Vachal,1903) (Eardley 1991). DISTRIBUTION. — Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda (Eardley 1991; Ascher & Pickering 2025). REMARKS Vachal described C. interrupta from specimens from Acra [Ghana], Batah [Equatorial Guinea], Sierra Leone, and “ des chutes de Samlia ” [Gabon, see Madl 2021]. Eardley (1991: 37) wrote: “A female from Accra, Ghana, was designated as the lectotype of this species by Cockerell and Mackie (1933)”. Cockerell & Mackie (1933: 36) wrote:“Accra must be considered the type locality”.As for C. calceata, this does not constitute a valid lectotype designation under Article 74.5 because the authors did not explicitly select a syntype to act as the unique name-bearing type of the taxon. In order to maintain consistency with the revision of Eardley, this female specimen from Accra is hereby designated as the lectotype (Fig. 29A). An additional paralectotype from Equatorial Guinea is present in the MNHN collection that was not recognised by Eardley as being part of the original type series, even though he examined and determined it (Fig. 30A).

Authors 1

1. Thomas James Wood corresponding Aachen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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   Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden (the Netherlands)