Paranicla wittmeri, Kohler, 1961

Blas, German San, Rodríguez-Ramírez, Joanna Valeria, Hausmann, Axel, Buchsbaum, Ulf & Navarro, Fernando, 2025, Illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) described by Pablo E. Köhler, Zootaxa 5593 (1), pp. 1-87 : 84

wittmeri ( Agrotis ), 1959a: 52. [ Noctuinae . Noctuini ] ( Fig. 300 )

Current status. Pseudoleucania wittmeri [ San Blas 2014]

Type status (description). Holotype in Köhler’s collection.

Type locality and collectors. Bolivia — Oruro, 3.700 m. (W. Wittmer) .

Type specimens. ZSM: Allotype ♀. Oruro, Bolivia, 3700m, W. Wittmer.

Remarks. Although Köhler did not specify the sex of the holotype, he described only the female. While the material found has an allotype label, we believe it is the holotype. As mentioned for Poliodestra albolimbata and other species, when Köhler based the description on a single female specimen he usually labeled it as allotype. In this case he designated a female holotype in the description, but we assume that he never changed the allotype label of the only specimen he had.

Figures

FIGURES 290–304. Dorsal view of type specimens with its respective labels. 290. ♂ holotype of Polia tucumana Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 291. ♂ holotype of Spragueira [sic] turca Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 292. ♀ holotype of Paranicla universitaria Köhler, 1961 (IFML). 293. ♂ holotype of Eucoptocnemis vaga Köhler, 1967 (IFML). 294. ♂ syntype of Brachygalea varians Köhler, (1952) 1951 (ZSM). 295. ♂ syntype of Noctulizeria varians Köhler, 1945 (ZSM). 296. ♂ syntype of Onychestra verdinigra Köhler, 1947 (ZSM). 297. ♂ holotype of Polia ganeo virescens Köhler, 1968 (ZSM). 298. ♂ holotype of Aporophilas [sic] virgo Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 299. ♀ syntype of Cotarsina vivax Köhler, (1952) 1951 (ZSM). 300. ♀ allotype of Agrotis wittmeri Köhler, 1959 (ZSM). 301. ♂ syntype of Lasiestra wittmeri Köhler, 1947 (IFML). 302. ♂ holotype of Paranicla wittmeri Köhler, 1961 (IFML). 303. ♀ holotype of Agrotis xerophilina Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 304. ♂ paralectotype of Riagria xylinoides Köhler, (1952) 1951 (ZSM). Scale bars= 10 mm. Photo credits: 294–297, 299–300, 304 M. Pogue.