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Archithosia (Acanthosia) flavifrontella Eq.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Museo di Storia naturale del Salento. S. P. Calimera-Borgagne, Km 1, 73021 Calimera, Italy

Description

Archithosia (Acanthosia) flavifrontella (Strand, 1912) (Figs. 5A, B; 6A, B; 7A, B)

Material (genitalia dissected): 3 ♂♂, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 19-2/ 11-3- 2011, Durante leg.; 1 ♂, same data, 24/ 25-2-2011; 6 ♂♂, same data, 14/ 24-3-2015; 1 ♂, GABON, fl. Zadié, 500 m, 0°47'32"N 13°08'30"E, 22/ 23-2-2011, Durante leg.; 1 ♂, GABON, Monts de Cristal, Kinguélé, 0°27'12"N 10°16'40"E, 19/ 30-11-2019, Durante leg.; 2 ♂♂, same data, 24/ 30-11-2019; 1 ♂, GABON, Mondah Forest, 0°34'44"N 09°20'06"E, 26/11/2017, Durante leg.

4 ♀♀, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 19-2/ 11-3-2011, Durante leg.; 4 ♀♀, same data, 14/ 24-3-2015; 3 ♀♀, GABON, fl. Zadié, 500 m, 0°47'32"N 13°08'30"E, 22/ 23-2-2011, Durante leg.; 2 ♀♀, GABON, Monts de Cristal, Kinguélé, 0°27'12"N 10°16'40"E, 19/ 30-11-2019, Durante leg.; 2 ♀♀, same data, 24/ 30- 11-2019.

One female presents teratological genital morphology (Fig. 7B; see Discussion for comments).

Supplementary material (genitalia not dissected): 1 ♂, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 19-2/ 11-3-2011, Durante leg.; 1 ♂, same data, 24/ 25-2-2011; 4 ♂♂, same data, 16/ 28-2-2012; 4 ♂♂, same data, 14/ 24-3-2015; 1 ♂, same data, 21/ 22-11-2017.

10 ♀♀, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 19-2/ 11-3-2011, Durante leg.; 2 ♀♀, same data, 24/ 25-2-2011; 3 ♀♀, GABON, fl. Zadié, 500 m, 0°47'32"N 13°08'30"E, 22/ 23-2-2011, Durante leg.; 19 ♀♀, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 16/ 28-2-2012, Durante leg.; 11 ♀♀, same data, 14/ 24-3-2015; 2 ♀♀, same data, 16/ 21-6-2016; 2 ♀♀, same data, 21/ 22-11-2017; 1 ♀, GABON, Monts de Cristal, Kinguélé, 0°27'12"N 10°16'40"E, 19/ 30-11-2019, Durante leg.

Remarks

Species recorded for the first time in Gabon.

Notes

Published as part of Durante, Antonio, Potenza, Luigi & Pellegrino, Gabriele, 2025, Revision of the subgenus Acanthosia Krüger, 2015 in the genus Archithosia Birket-Smith, 1965, with a description of four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 407-425 in Zootaxa 5659 (3) on pages 412-413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15823338

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D187D538500F1DFF66FB5CFD1DF888

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.15823354 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.15823358 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.15823360 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.6 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15823338 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE8FFAD38550F1BFFF1FFE3FF97FFD6 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A9502C5D-D8E1-4FB6-A06A-8F676257C36F (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D187D538500F1DFF66FB5CFD1DF888 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/265658497 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/310932/taxon/03D187D538500F1DFF66FB5CFD1DF888.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
2011-02-23 , 2011-02-25 , 2011-03-11 , 2012-02-28 , 2015-03-24 , 2016-06-21 , 2017-11-22 , 2017-11-26 , 2019-11-30
Verbatim event date
2011-02-23 , 2011-02-25 , 2011-03-11 , 2012-02-28 , 2015-03-24 , 2016-06-21 , 2017-11-22 , 2017-11-26 , 2019-11-30
Scientific name authorship
Eq.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Archithosia
Species
flavifrontella
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Archithosia (Acanthosia) flavifrontella (Strand, 1912) sec. Durante, Potenza & Pellegrino, 2025

References

  • Strand, E. (1912 a) Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessmann nach Sud-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Lepidoptera. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, LXXVIII (9), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.19120060202