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Aethalopteryx tristis

  • 1. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. E-mail: colias 24 @ mail. ru; yakovlev _ asu @ mail. ru & Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
  • 2. African Natural History Research Trust, Leominster, Street Court, Kingsland, Herefordshire, HR 6 9 QA, G. B. E-mail: gyula @ anhrt. org. uk
  • 3. Museu de História Natural de Maputo, Travessia de Zambeze, Maputo, Mozambique; E-mail: aavetina @ gmail. com * Corresponding author. E-mail: yakovlev _ asu @ mail. ru

Description

Aethalopteryx tristis (Gaede, 1915)

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Aethalopteryx tristis Gaede, 1915: 147−148

Type locality: [Namibia], D.[eutsch] S.[üd] W.[est] Afr.[rika], S Namaland, Kuibis.

Type material: Holotype in MfN, examined.

Distribution: Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Republic of Southern Africa, Swaziland) (Vári et al. 2002; Yakovlev & Murphy 2013; Mey 2016; Yakovlev & Witt 2016; Yakovlev et al. 2019), Mozambique.

Material examined. Mozambique, Maputo Special Reserve. 1 male, West Gate (Sand Thicket), 22 m, 26°30’14.2”S, 32°42’59.6”E, 21−30.xi.2016, Aristophanous, M., Cristovao, J., László, G., Miles, W. leg., ANHRT: 2017.22; 1 male, Ponta Milibangalala (Dune Grassland – Dune Forest Ecotone), 15 m, 26°26’58.6”S, 32°55’29.8”E, 30.xi.−3.xii.2016, Aristophanous, M., Cristovao, J., László, G., Miles, W. leg., ANHRT:2017.22 (ANHRT).

Remark. New country record for Mozambique.

Notes

Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., László, Gyula M. & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2020, Contribution to the knowledge of the Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve in South Mozambique with description of two new species, pp. 40-52 in Ecologica Montenegrina 28 on page 47, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.28.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13307241

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ANHRT , MfN
Event date
2016-11-21 , 2016-11-30
Verbatim event date
2016-11-21/30 , 2016-11-30/12-03
Scientific name authorship
Gaede
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Cossidae
Genus
Aethalopteryx
Species
tristis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aethalopteryx tristis (Gaede, 1915) sec. Yakovlev, László & Vetina, 2020

References

  • Gaede, M. (1915) Lepidoptera von Herrn P. Range im Nama-Land, Deutsch S. W. Afrika, gesammelt. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris, 29, 144 - 148.
  • Vari, L., Kroon, D. M. & Kruger, M. (2002) Classification and Checklist of the species of Lepidoptera recorded in Southern Africa. Chastwood, 385 pp.
  • Yakovlev, R. V. & Murphy, R. J. (2013) The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 3709 (4), 371 - 393. DOI: 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3709.4.5
  • Mey, W. (2016) A taxonomic and faunistic study of the Cossidae of southwestern Africa (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 6, 146 - 198.
  • Yakovlev, R. V. & Witt, T. J. (2016) Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) of Swaziland, South Africa. Far Eastern Entomologist, 311, 9 - 12.