Abstract
Beutenmüller (1898) described Synchloe lotta from a short series of syntypes now housed in the American Museum of Natural History. Because Beutenmüller listed lotta’s distribution as Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and southern California, and because a wide variety of phenotypes occur in these states, it is necessary to eliminate current confusion by clarifying the identity of this name. In this short paper, I select a lectotype and concomitant type locality. A brief synonymy is presented.
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