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Opisthoheza heza Zolotuhin & Prozorov 2010

Description

Opisthoheza heza Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010

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(Figs 1, 4, 7)

Additional material (all from CAC): ♂, “ Cameroun / Region centre - Obout / V-2021 / Coll. Al. Cipolla ”; ♂, “ Cameroun / Region centre - Obout / IX-2020 / Coll. Al. Cipolla ”; ♂, “ RDC - Prov Maniema / Lubutu / 10/ 15-X-2018 / Leg. Th. Bouyer / Coll A. Cipolla ”; ♂, “R.D. Congo / Pr. Orient., Biakato / 1-03-2016 / coll Al. Cipolla ”.

Distribution (Fig. 7). Discovery in Cameroon is a new record; earlier the species was recorded for Gabon, Congo, DRC, and Uganda.

Biology. Type specimens were collected in January–March, May, and November; additional material was also collected in September and October.

Notes

Published as part of Revay, Edita E., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Cipolla, Alexandre, Volkova, Julia S., Saldaitis, Aidas, Yakovlev, Roman V., Sulak, Harald, Müller, Günter C. & Prozorov, Alexey M., 2024, Description of a new Opisthoheza from the Central Congolian lowland forests (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Gastropachini), pp. 220-229 in Ecologica Montenegrina 80 on page 222, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.80.20, http://zenodo.org/record/14653399

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References

  • Zolotuhin, V. V. & Prozorov, A. M. (2010) A review of the genera Opisthodontia Aurivillius, 1895, and Stenophatna Aurivillius, 1909, with erection of 8 new genera and descriptions of 37 new species and 2 new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Atalanta, 41 (3 / 4), 397 - 460.