SYNTYPES 3♂ Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo:] Upper Lowa Valley, near Masisi, West Kivu, 5000-6000', ii.1924 (T.A. Barns) [2♂ CMNH; 1♂ NHMUK].
Taxonomic Notes:
Proposed as a subspecies of Polyptychus nigriplaga. Synonymized with the nominotypical subspecies by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 16, who treated it as a very heavily marked form. Reinstated as a subspecies of Polyptychus nigriplaga by Pierre, 1993, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 97: 444. Reinstated as a species by Bouyer, 2016, Lambillionea 116: 220.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
