Albirenia andina

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 : 8

andina ( Euxoa ), 1945: 86. [ Noctuinae . Noctuini ] ( Fig. 10 )

Current status. Junior synonym of Agrotis peruviana (Hampson) [ San Blas 2014]

Type status (description). Allotype in Instituto Lillo (Tucumán).

Type locality and collectors. [ Argentina]— Tucumán: Tafí, Cerro de la Mina, 3000m., iv.1933 (Schreiter) .

Type specimens. IFML: Holotype ♂. Dto. Tafi, Cerro de la Mina, 3000m, iv.1933. TLEP242.

Figures. Köhler, 1967: fig. 29 allotype (♂). Köhler, 1968: 4, pl. 1, fig. 2 male, pl. 4, fig. 2 male genitalia.

Remarks. Although Köhler did not specify the sex of the allotype, he described only the female. San Blas (2014) stated: “There is some confutation as to the sex and identity of the original holotype. Köhler (1945) describes Euxoa andina from a female and called it allotype. In Köhler’s (1967) catalog there is a photo of a specimen labeled as “ alotipo (m)” [allotype (male)]. At IFML there is a male specimen labeled as Holotype that agrees with Köhler’s (1967) description and photo. There are two possibilities: 1) Köhler described the species with a female and labeled Allotype (females were traditionally called allotype), when he illustrated a male in 1967 he probably would have called it an Allotype male, meaning it isn’t the holotype, but being a male he later put it in the collection as the holotype; hence, there are two “type” specimens; or 2) as type specimen and 1967 photo are the same specimen, it is likely he realized it was a male after description and put it in the collection as holotype. Because there is no evidence Köhler had more than one specimen at moment of description, and both, description type locality and holotype at IFML, has same locality information, I use the holotype at IFML to define this species.” Since there is no evidence Köhler had more than one specimen when describing the species and the type in the IFML corresponds to Köhler’s male allotype figure (1967: fig. 29), we consider this specimen as a holotype fixed by monotypy (according to article 73.1.2 ICZN).

Figures

FIGURES 2–17. Dorsal view of type specimens with its respective labels. 2. ♀ holotype of Hillia acronyctina Köhler, (1952) 1951 (ZSM). 3. ♀ syntype of Aporophyla albapice Köhler, (1952) 1951 (ZSM). 4. ♂ lectotype of Aucula hilzingeri albirubra Köhler, 1936 (MLP). 5. ♂ syntype of Scriptania albofusca Köhler, 1947 (ZSM). 6. ♀ allotype of Poliodestra albolimbata Köhler, 1947 (ZSM). 7. ♂ syntype of Clavipalpula alboradiata Köhler, 1947 (ZSM). 8. ♂ holotype of Scotia (Feltia) ancastiensis Köhler, 1966 (IFML). 9. ♂ syntype of Bryotype andina Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 10. ♂ holotype of Euxoa andina Köhler, 1945 (IFML). 11. ♀ holotype of Agrotis andinicola Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 12. ♂ holotype of Chabuata andraei Köhler, 1959 (ZSM). 13. ♂ holotype of Cucullia andraei Köhler, 1953 (ZSM). 14. ♂ holotype of Chabuata anthracina Köhler, 1947 (ZSM). 15. ♂ holotype of Aporophyla apicalis Köhler, 1979 (IFML). 16. ♂ holotype of Pseudoleucania arenophila Köhler, 1966 (IFML). 17. ♂ holotype of Austrandesia argentina Köhler, 1967 (IFML). Scale bars= 10 mm. Photo credits: 2–3, 5–7, 12–13 M. Pogue; 14 J. Ramírez.