Theclinae Swainson 1831

Theclinae Leptomyrina HANDMANI Gifford, 1965 A List of the Butterflies of Malawi, The Society of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 177 pp. [53–54], plate D, figure 64 and 65. Combination still valid (see Bridges, 1988c; Ackery, Smith and Vane-Wright, 1995). Holotype, male, pinned (abdomen missing); also allotype ♀ and paratype ♂, both pinned. Specimen data: Specimen a ♂: “ Zomba mntn. | March 1955 | Nyasaland” verso “ ♂ D.R.G.” [Handwritten (by Gifford)]. “ Leptomyrina | handmani ♂ | det. D.R.Gifford | 1960 | Holotype ” [Handwritten (by Gifford)]. “Type” [Printed on red-bordered circular label]. No registration label. Specimen b: “LB [Limbe] 1-1-60 ” [Handwritten in pencil on pink paper]. “ Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. C.N.Holmes 1990” [Handwritten (by Holmes)]. “ ALLOTYPE ♀ | Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. | S.I.Baldwin 1990” [Handwritten (by Baldwin)]. No registration label. Specimen c: “Mitzidi Hill, | Blantyre, NYASALAND. | elev. 4000’. | Date 17-1-60. | J.D.HANDMAN” [Handwritten and Printed]. “Para- | type” [Round, yellow-bordered label]. “ Paratype of | Leptomyrina | handmani Gifford | det. S.I.Baldwin, 1990 | & C.W.N.Holmes ” [Handwritten (by Baldwin)]. No registration label. Remarks: These specimens are unambiguously the types. The holotype ♂ and allotype ♀ were initially registered (1961.12.8) as “ Leptomyrina griselda Gifford ” and appear under this name in Gifford’s draft version of his “Butterflies of Malawi”. Gifford changed the name to handmani before describing them in 1965. Published as part of Bland, Keith P., 2019, Name-bearing types of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 57-89 in Zootaxa 4559 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.1.2, zenodo.org