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Adelpherupa pontica Maes 2002, sp.n.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Museums of Kenya, Dep. Invert. Zoology, P. O. Box 40658, Nairobi, Kenya.

Description

Adelpherupa pontica sp.n.

(figures 1f, 2c, 3g, 4e)

Diagnosis. Black line on fore wing straight. Male genitalia with straight costa, ventral part of valva rounded. Zona glabra tympani with median sclerotization forming four short branches as in A. typicota but always one branch forming an angle of 90° degrees with the longitudinal body axis.

Description. Ground colour reddish-brown or yellowish-brown. Black line on forewing straighter almost straight, usually clear. Two black spots clearly visible on forewing.

Male genitalia. Uncus curved, gnathos covered with minute spines; valva with costa straight and ventral part curved to the apex of the costa; aedeagus slightly bend; vesica with a single plate-like cornutus.

Female genitalia. Papillae anales with short and long setae, apophyses posteriores and anteriores of about equal length; ostium bursae, ductus bursae and corpus bursae membranous, antrum only slightly sclerotized.

Tympanal organs. Zona glabra tympani with for branches, fi rst left and right anterior branch on an angle of 90° degrees with the longitudinal body axis.

Wing span. 22–31 mm.

Distribution. Cameroon, Congo (DRC), Uganda.

Life cycle. Unknown.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: Cameroon Dschang 1400 m 23 October 1990 K. Maes, GPKM 776 (ABSRC); 4 PARATYPES: 1: Cameroon Dschang, 1400 m 08 November 1990 K. Maes, GPKM 553; 1, same locality, GPKM 554 (ABSRC); 1: same locality 23 October 1990 (ABSRC); 1: same locality 29 October 1990 (ABSRC).

Additional material examined. (Congo, DRC) 1: Elisabethville 21 December 1949 C. H. Seydel, GPKM 14120 (MRAC); 1 same locality, 26 December 1949, GPKM 14119 (MRAC); 1: same locality 19 December 1949, GPKM 14126 (MRAC); Uganda: 1: Uganda Ruwenzori Range, Ibanda 4700 ft 20–21 August 1952 D. S. Fletcher, Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20049 (BMNH); 1: W. Uganda, Fort Portal, March 1959 R. H. Carcasson, GPKM 20106 (NMK); 1: Masindi 30 April 1895 (Dr Ansorge), Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20896 (BMNH); 1: Mahuba’s Kif. 1050 m 16 January 1925 A. J. T. Janse, Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20050 (BMNH).

Notes

Published as part of Maes, K. V. N., 2002, Revision of the genus Adelpherupa Hampson (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Schoenobiinae) with the description of ve new species, pp. 1707-1724 in Journal of Natural History 36 (14) on page 1723, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110061878, http://zenodo.org/record/4757434

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ABSRC , BMNH , MRAC , NMK
Material sample ID
14119 , 14120 , 14126 , 20049 , 20050 , 20106 , 20896 , 553 , 554 , 776
Event date
1895-04-30 , 1925-01-16 , 1949-12-19 , 1949-12-21 , 1949-12-26 , 1952-08-20 , 1990-10-23 , 1990-10-29 , 1990-11-08
Verbatim event date
1895-04-30 , 1925-01-16 , 1949-12-19 , 1949-12-21 , 1949-12-26 , 1952-08-20/21 , 1990-10-23 , 1990-10-29 , 1990-11-08
Scientific name authorship
Maes
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Adelpherupa
Species
pontica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Adelpherupa pontica Maes, 2002