Revision of the Orbamia Herbulot, 1966 group of genera with description of two new genera, ten new species, and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae, Cassymini)
Author
Tujuba, Tesfu Fekensa
Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Comoros street, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia & Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via Francesco De Sanctis Campobasso, Italy
Author
Hausmann, Axel
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Muenchhausenstr, 21, Munich, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0358-9928
hausmann.a@snsb.de
Author
Sciarretta, Andrea
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via Francesco De Sanctis Campobasso, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9443-4816
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.929.50391
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.929.50391
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Orbamia balensis Hausmann & Tujuba
sp. nov.
Figures 14
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Examined material.
Holotype
: ♂, Ethiopia Oromia, Bale 8 km S. Dolo Mena, 1200 m, IV.2017, leg. R. Beck, coll. ZSM (ZSM G 20914).
Paratypes
: 2♂2♀, Ethiopia Oromia, Bale 8 km S. Dolo Mena, 1200 m, IV.2017, leg. R. Beck (ZSM G 20948/♀); 1♀,
Aethiopien
, prov. Oromia, Dolo Mena, 30 km, S., 1080 m (savanna) 06°13.53'N, 39°46.82'E, 14.IV.2019, Robert Beck (ZSM).
Etymology.
The name refers to the type locality in the Bale mountains.
Differential features
(COI sequences, photographs of adults and their genitalia see https://dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-ORBAMIA): Adult: Forewing length: 11-13 mm. Upperside of wings: Ground colour comparatively dark, with much dark brown suffusion, pattern not well contrasted. Underside: Ground colour beige, with pale orange tinge on veins, apical spots on forewing conspicuous, sharply bordered, on hindwing slightly darker at apex only, remnants of dotted terminal fascia on all wings. Male genitalia: Uncus stout, very long, saccus broad, valva straight, 'very broad at base, narrow at tip, dorsal process stoutly sclerotised, with conspicuous, stout hook at tip, cornutus narrow and short (1.1 mm). Female genitalia: Lamella ante- and post-vaginalis fused, heart-shaped, short (length 0.6 mm), signum small, transverse ridge straight (0.2 mm).
Figures 37-45.
Male genitalia of the genus
Orbamia
.
37
Orbamia octomaculata
38
O. marginata
39
O. becki
40
O. renimacula
41
O. clarissima
42
O. clarior
43
O. obliqua
44
O. obliqua parva
45
O. ocellata
. Scale bar: 1 mm.