Species

Melete lycimnia (Cramer, [1777])

    aelia Felder & Felder, 1861

Original Description

Pieris species aelia Felder & Felder, 1861

Type specimen(s)

Status: Syntype(s)
Specimen data: ST (♂, Prof. Uricoechea, presumably coll. C. & R. Felder)
Current depository: BMNH, London

Type locality

Type locality as cited in original description: "Nova Granada, in provincica Bogotá prope Muzo"
Current country: Colombia

Taxonomic history

Originally described as Pieris species aelia Felder & Felder, 1861
Treated as a subspecies of Melete lycimnia (Cramer, 1777) by Lamas (2004: 112).