Revisionary checklist of the Southern African Sesiini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) with description of new species Author Bartsch, Daniel text Zootaxa 2013 2013-11-26 3741 1 1 54 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3741.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.1.1 1175-5326 10099866 6B2E0F80-73A2-4F66-B1A6-2D9481EAAB74 Anaudia thyranthrena new sp. Figs 33 , 114 Specimen examined. Holotype : ♂ ( Fig. 33 ) “ South Africa , Cape Province , SW of Rawsonville, Tygerstelskloof Mns., 1800 m , 30.Dec.1963 ” “TMPS sp. 26” (gen. prep. Bartsch 2007–31, Fig. 114 ) ( TMPS ). Etymology. Named after its superficial resemblance with some species of Thyranthrene Hampson, 1919 ( Sesiidae : Paranthrenini ). Description of the male ( Figs 33 , 114 ). Wingspan 17 mm , forewing length 7 mm , antenna 5.5 mm and body 12 mm . Head with labial palpus almost white, first palpomere ventrally mixed with light brownish, bristle-like scales, second one laterally and mesally with black, bristle-like scales, third one greyish-black; antenna bipectinate, rami short and broad, flagellum black, ventrally light brown, scapus ventrally white; frons white, medially grey; vertex with mixed black and light grey scales; pericephalic scales whitish. Thorax and abdomen dorsally dark brownish-grey, interspersed with some black; prothorax laterally and ventrally, and lateral spot of the mesothorax off-white; tergite 4 with fine, off-white posterior margin; sternites brownish-grey, somewhat mottled with ochre; anal tuft brownish-grey. Legs and tibial spurs dark brownish-grey; coxa, femur and tibia mottled with off-white, hair-like scales; segments of tarsus meso-distally with ochre patch; fore coxa off-white; hind tibia medio-laterally with large, white patch. Wings dark brownish-grey; forewing almost opaque, with two minute transparent cells between median veins; wing base, cell, stem of media and cubitus densely mixed with black; discal spot marked by some light grey scales; underside basally black, sub-basally and at distal margin light grey; hindwing proximal of discal spot and two small distal cells between M1–M3 hyaline; wing base and anal margin black; fringes brownishgrey, anal margin of hindwing white. Male genitalia ( Fig. 113 ). As stated in the genus description. Uncus small, row of its thorn-like setae about one third as long as its total length; saccus as long as processes vinculi; coecum penis distinctly tapered, distally pointed. Female. Unknown. Diagnosis. See A. felderi .