Gromphas amazonica Bates, 1870

Gromphas amazonica Bates, 1870: 175 [30th June 1870].

NAME-BEARING TYPE. — Lectotype (female), designated by Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello (2013: 462), MNHN (ex Henry Walter Bates and René Oberthür collections).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil: Amazonas: Tefé .

ETYMOLOGY. — A New Latin first-class adjective in the nominative case meaning ‘Amazonian’, ‘from the Amazon rainforest’ (Wiktionary 2019b). A toponym after the place famously explored by H. W. Bates between 1848 and 1859 (Bates 1863; Papavero 1973), where he collected the type series and where the species is endemic.

DISTRIBUTION. — Floodplains and sandbanks of the Amazon and some of its upper tributaries and headwaters, namely the Juruá, Huallaga, Ucayali, and Pisqui Rivers, across Peru, the southern tip of Colombia, and Brazil.