Evonima littoralis
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Evonima littoralis (van Son, 1933)
(Figs 43, 66)
Poecilonola littoralis van Son, 1933, Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15: 201. Type locality: [RSA] Natal, Durban. Holotype male, in coll. TMSA.
Material examined: Mozambique, Maputo Special Reserve. 1 ♂, 22m, West Gate, Sand Forest, 26°30'14.2"S, 32°42'59.6"E, 30.V.–9.VI.2017, MV Light Trap, Aristophanous, M., Laszlo, G., Miles, W., Vetina, A. leg., slide No.: LGNA 387 ♂; 1 ♂, same site, date and collectors, but collected at Actinic Light Trap; 1 ♂, 22m, West Gate, Sand Forest, 26°30'14.2"S, 32°42'59.6"E, 21–22.ii.2018, Actinic Light Trap, Laszlo, G., Mulvaney, J., Smith, L. leg. (coll. ANHRT).
Taxonomic notes. The so far only known real Evonima species in the Afrotropics is E. westafricana Hacker, 2012, displaying very similar genitalia structure to that of the type species of the genus (Evonima aperta Walker, 1865) and its Asiatic relatives. The other two species treated as Evonima, E. littoralis (van Son, 1933) and E. ruhija Hacker, 2012 differ significantly in male genitalia from the ground plan of Asiatic Evonima and E. westafricana as it is shown in Hacker et al (2012), suggesting a need for erecting a distinct genus for littoralis and ruhija. As a complete revision of the African Evonima was out of the scope of this present paper, the original nomenclature is followed here. The species has already been recorded in Mozambique, Pemba (Hacker 2014).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ANHRT , LGNA , MV , TMSA , VI
- Event date
- 2018-02-21
- Family
- Nolidae
- Genus
- Evonima
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- LGNA 387
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- van Son
- Species
- littoralis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-02-21/22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Evonima littoralis (Son, 1933) sec. László & Vetina, 2019
References
- Son, van G. (1933) A revision of the South African moths of the tribe Nolini. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 15 (2), 181 - 232.
- Hacker, H. H., Schreier, H. P. & Goater, B. (2012) Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae). Esperiana, 17, 7 - 612.
- Walker, F. (1865) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII, Supplement 2, 505.
- Hacker, H. H. (2014) Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae) Supplement 1. Esperiana, 19, 121 - 179.