MCZ Entomology 16603

Colias occidentalis occidentalis Scudder, 1862

Syntype of Colias occidentalis  
  Lectotype of Colias occidentalis

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2013-12-31

North America: United States: Washington: Jefferson | Gulf of Georgia, vicinity of Port Townsend

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:16603 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Colias occidentalis occidentalis Scudder, 1862
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Lepidoptera Glossata Heteroneura Papilionoidea Pieridae Coliadinae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: legacy
Previous Identifications
Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: expert ID
Remarks: C. philodice occidentalis Scud.
Colias occidentalis Scudder, 1862
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Lepidoptera Glossata Heteroneura Papilionoidea Pieridae Coliadinae
Common Name(s): Western Sulphur
Determiner: Clifford D. Ferris on 1987-02-28
Nature of ID: expert ID
Remarks: Lectotype Colias occidentalis Scudder. Designated by C. D. Ferris Feb, 1987

Scudder 1862, page 109, Syntype of Colias occidentalis Scudder, 1862
Barnes and McDunnough 1916, page 66, Lectotype of Colias occidentalis Scudder, 1862 "...we believe we are justified in restricting the type of this species to the ♂ specimen in Cambridge from Port Townsend, Gulf of Georgia (Agassiz), which fully agrees with Scudder's diagnosis; ... "
Ferris 1988, page 19, Lectotype of Colias occidentalis Scudder, 1862 Re-designation of lectotype. Though Ferris does not know who authored the comment label shown in Figure 35, it appears to be in the handwriting of Hermann Hagen.
Media type: text; Scudder 1862 Description: Scudder (1862), Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 9:103-111;

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Media type: text; Barnes and McDunnough 1916 Description: Barnes & McDunnough (1916), Contr. Nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 4(2):61-208;

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  • type number: 16603

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (pinned) unknown in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
sex Male By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe
life stage adult By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe

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  • Lectotype ♂♀♀ Mr. Scudders types! The ♀ belong to Chrysotheme -- see the ♀ Chrys. = Euryth. labeled by Mr. W. H. Edwards and the ♀ fr. Oregon.; Jan.-Jun. 2001 MCZ Image Database; specimen of occidentalis lent to Chermock 18-IV-1945 [in handwriting on Vladimir Nabokov. -RLH, 2015]. [Locality inferred from Hagen (1883), Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 22: 164. -RLH, 2015]

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  • Continent:
  • North America
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Washington
  • County:
  • Jefferson
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Gulf of Georgia, vicinity of Port Townsend
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Gulf of Georgia
  • Georeference:
  • 48.1170390°, -122.76044° (Error radius: 4075m) By: Nelson Rios on 2018-10-03 (Source: GEOLocate batch georeferencing, 2018-10-03)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2013-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • Alexander Agassizlinked data icon

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