Published April 7, 2021 | Version v1
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Abantiades penneshawensis Moore & Beaver & Velasco-Castrillón & Stevens 2021, sp. nov.

  • 1. Biological and Earth Sciences, South Australian Museum, SA 5000, Australia.
  • 2. Biological and Earth Sciences, South Australian Museum, SA 5000, Australia. & University of Adelaide, Biological Sciences, SA 5005, Australia.

Description

Abantiades penneshawensis Moore & Beaver, sp. nov.

Figs 7a–b, 9a–d, 11a, 12a, 13

Material Examined:

Holotype ♂. (Fig. 7a). Located in SAMA collection: S.A., Baudin Cons [ervation]. Pk., K [angaroo].I[sland]., Penneshaw, M + M Moore [leg.], 35 o 43’28.3”S 137 o 57’15.7”E, 21 April 2019, Spec. No., 19145, Leg removed, for tissue, storage, M.D. Moore. Dissected E.P. Beaver. SAMA Database No. 31-021001.

Paratypes ♀. SAMA, 1♀, S.A., North Cape Road, K.I., Bay of Shoals, M+M Moore, 35 o 35’58.2”S 137 o 35’40.7”E, 30 April 2019. Spec. No., 19167, Leg removed, for tissue, storage, M.D. Moore. SAMA Database No. 31-021002. SAMA, 1♀, S.A., Baudin Cons. Pk., K.I., Penneshaw, M+M Moore, 35 o 43’28.3”S 137 o 57’15.7”E, 21 April 2019, Spec. No., 19160, Leg removed, for tissue, storage, M.D. Moore. SAMA Database No. 31-021003. Dissected E.P. Beaver. SAMA, 1♀, MacGillivray, Kangaroo I. S.A., April 1931. J. Wood.

Notes

Published as part of Moore, Michael D., Beaver, Ethan P., Velasco-Castrillón, Alejandro & Stevens, Mark I., 2021, Two new endemicspecies ofAbantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia, pp. 571-597 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on page 585, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4668500

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SAMA
Event date
2019-04-21 , 2019-04-30
Family
Hepialidae
Genus
Abantiades
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Moore & Beaver & Velasco-Castrillón & Stevens
Species
penneshawensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2019-04-21 , 2019-04-30
Taxonomic concept label
Abantiades penneshawensis Moore & Beaver, 2021