Macrotarsipodes pedunculata Bartsch & Sáfián 2022, comb. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart.
- 2. African Natural History Research Trust Street Court, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR 6 9 QA, UK.
Description
Macrotarsipodes pedunculata (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov. (Ichneumenoptera)
(Figs 34–36, 46)
Ichneumenoptera pedunculata: Hampson 1910: 155.
Sphecosesia brachyptera: Hampson 1919: 77; unnecessary replacement name; Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 119; Gaede 1929: 527; Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 44.
Tipulamima pedunculata: Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 33.
Type material examined. Holotype ♂ (Fig. 34): Gold Coast [Ghana], Ashanti, Obuasi, [Label: 20. March 1906, W. M.] Graham leg. (NHMUK); with labels: “Ashanti. Obuasi. / 20.III.1956 / W.M.Graham. / 1907-74”; “ Ichneumenoptera pedunculata / type ♂. Hmpsn.”; “Type / H.T.”.
Further specimens. 1♂, 13.Jan.1993 (Bartsch GU 2007-20) (Fig. 46); 1♂, 21.Jan.1993; 1♂, 26.Jan.1993; 2♂, 27.Jan.1993; 1♂, 29.Jan.1993; 1♂, 23.Feb.1993, all specimens: W-Africa, Nigeria, Ile-Ife, 280m, leg. L. Schlimm; 1♂, Cameroon, SW-Region, Mt. Cameroon, Buea, Ekonjo, 04°03'49.2"N, 09°09'18.8"E, 600-650 m, 19.Oct.2011, pheromone (SMNS). 1♂, Ghana, Ashanti Region, Bonkro village community guesthouse, 7.Oct.2019, at pheromone, leg. D. Bartsch & Sz. Sáfián; 1♂ (Figs 35–36), Ghana, Central Region, Gyawale private forest near Kakum NP, 16.Oct.2019, at pheromone, leg. D. Bartsch & Sz. Sáfián (CDB), 1♂ Guinea, Nimba Mountains, Cité 1 (SMFG concession area), 07°42'02.83"N, 08°23'58.60"W, 700 m, at mixed pheromone lure bundle, 3.Sept.2017, leg. Sz. Sáfián & G. Simonics (ANHRT).
This West African species occurs in the lowlands from Guinea in the west to Cameroon in the east. Some unspecifically attracted males came around noon to artificial pheromones originally composed for western Palearctic Sesiidae species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK , SMFG
- Event date
- 1906-03-20 , 2011-10-19 , 2017-09-03 , 2019-10-07 , 2019-10-16
- Verbatim event date
- 1906-03-20/1956-03-20 , 2011-10-19 , 2017-09-03 , 2019-10-07 , 2019-10-16
- Scientific name authorship
- Bartsch & Sáfián
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Macrotarsipodes
- Species
- pedunculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrotarsipodes pedunculata (Hampson, 1910) sec. Bartsch & Sáfián, 2022
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1910) Descriptions of new African moths. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 5 / 6, 430 - 496 + 116 - 141 + 145 - 160. (Sesiidae 149 - 156). https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931008692834
- Hampson, G. F. (1919) A classification of the Aegeriadae of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Novitates Zoologicae, 26 (1), 46 - 119. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 5633
- Dalla Torre, K. W. & Strand, E. (1925) Aegeriidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 31. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 202. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 143714
- Gaede, M. (1929) 22. Familie: Aegeriidae (Sesiidae). In Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde. Bd. 14. Die afrikanischen Spinner und Schwarmer. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 515 - 538, pl. 77. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48019290305
- Heppner, J. B. & Duckworth, W. D. (1981) Classification of the Superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera, Ditrysia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 314, 1 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.314
- Puhringer, F. & Kallies, A. (2004) Provisional checklist of the Sesiidae of the world (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzkammergut, 4, 1 - 85. Available from: https: // www. sesiidae. net / Checklst. htm (accessed 6 Oktober 2020)