Species

Melete leucadia (Felder & Felder, 1862)

    leucadia Felder & Felder, 1862

Original Description

Euterpe species leucadia Felder & Felder, 1862

Type specimen(s)

Status: Syntype(s)
Specimen data: ST (♂, , coll. Felder & Felder)
Current depository: BMNH, London ?

Type locality

Type locality as cited in original description: "riparum fluminis Negro superioris in Brasilia septentrionali [...] apud Rio Negro [...] in Novae Granadae montibus"
Current country: Brazil; Colombia

Taxonomic history

Originally described as Euterpe species leucadia Felder & Felder, 1862
Treated as a species of Melete Swainson, [1831] by Lamas (2004: 113).