1) Biology terminology 
Paratype is a technical term used in the scientific naming of species and other taxa of organisms. The exact meaning of the term paratype when it is used in zoology is not the same as the meaning when it is used in botany. In both cases however, this term is used in conjunction with another term, holotype. The term refers to type material, an actu...[moth genus] Paratype is a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae. ...
Every specimen in a type series other than the holotype which were before the author at the time of preparation of the original description and were so designated and indicated there
A specimen other than the holotype and its isotypes that the author cited at the time of publication of the original description. 
(from the article `taxonomy`) ...by someone who subsequently revises the taxon; the neotype occupies a position equivalent to that of the holotype. The first type validly ...
A paratype is all of the specimens of the type series of a species or subspecies other than the holotype . 
<zoology> Every specimen in a type series other than the holotype which were before the author at the time of preparation of the original description and were so designated and indicated there. ... (09 Jan 1998) ... 
All of the specimens in the type series of a species or subspecies other than the holotype.
A specimen forming part of the original series collected in a locality from which a single specimen, or holotype, has been selected as the type of a species; may be collected at any time subsequent to the description of the species.
any additional specimen listed in the type series, where the original description designated a holotype
Any additional specimen other than the holotype, listed in the type series, where the original description designated a holotype. These are not name-bearing types.