Type(s) [India: West Bengal,] Darjeeling [Darling] [NHMUK]. Butler, 1881, Illustr. typ. Spec. Lepid. Heterocera Brit. Mus. 5: 4, stated, “The original type of P. gloriosa is unfortunately so rubbed and faded that without comparison it could not have been identified; since, therefore, the description and figure already published do not correctly characterize the species, it has been necessary to make a second type of the fresh example collected by Dr. Lidderdale”. This designation of a neotype is unjustified and is rejected. Furthermore, Butler’s statement does not qualify as an implicit lectotype designation because it does not unambiguously identify a single specimen in NHMUK.
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Rhagastis by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 792 (key), 798.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
