Amalia antipodarum var. pallida Cockerell, 1891

Cockerell, 1891a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 7: 340.

Type material: Holotype, by monotypy, NHMUK 1886.11.18.17 (specimen in alcohol); ex Otago University Museum.

Label and register details: ‘Wellington’, ‘Purchased of the Commission for the New Zealand, Indian and Colonial Exhibition 1886’. Type locality: ‘Wellington’ (Cockerell 1891a: 340). Remarks: There are no published illustrations of the type specimen. Conspecific with Limax gagates Draparnaud, 1801, a non-native species that was established in New Zealand by 1840 (Barker 1979: 420, 1982: 178, 1999: 89) (see discussion above under Milax antipodarum). Current Taxonomy: Treated as a subjective junior synonym of Milax gagates (Draparnaud, 1801) by Powell (1979) and Barker (1979, 1982, 1999).