Four new species of the genus Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
László, Gyula M.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-11
4668
3
421
434
journal article
25474
10.11646/zootaxa.4668.3.7
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Tumicla doa
(
Kühne, 2007
)
(
Figs 8
,
37
)
Asura doa
Kühne, 2007
,
Esperiana Memoir
3
: 364, figs 37, 38, 135, 136 (
Type
locality: [Tanzania, Nguru Mts.] D.O. Afrika, Kwedikundi, Nguou Sebg.”).
Type
material examined.
Holotype
(
Figs 8
,
37
):
♀
, “D.O. Afrika,
Kwedikundi, Nguru Gebg
.,
Reuss S.G
.” / “1363” / “T 281” / “
Holotype
♀
Asura doa
by:
L. Kühne
” / “
L. Kühne
Dauerpräparat/e 388/2004” (Coll.
ZMB
)
.
Remarks. 1.
The
type
locality handwritten on the
holotype
label was erroneously cited by
Kühne (2007)
as “Nguou Sebg.” instead of “Nguru Gebg.” (Nguru Mts.).
2.
The species is currently known by the female
holotype
only. The male
paratype
from Amani (the Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania) is not conspecific with the
holotype
and belongs to
T. mbeghai
. The second
paratype
, a female from South Africa (“Natal”) illustrated by
Kühne (2007
, fig. 136) and deposited in the private collection of Lars Kühne has not been examined by us. However, according to its external appearance and collecting locality, this specimen is certainly not conspecific with the
holotype
of
T. doa
and supposedly belongs to the narrowly patterned form of
T. sagenaria
(
Wallengren, 1860
)
distributed in South Africa.
Diagnosis
. Forewing length is 12.5 mm in the
holotype
female. The differences between
T. doa
and
T. mbeghai
are explained above in the diagnosis of the latter.
Distribution
. The species is reliably known from its
type
locality, the Nguru Mountains in eastern Tanzania only.