Two new species of Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) from Uganda, with a checklist of the genus in the Afrotropical Region
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Author
Koo, Jun-Mo
Author
Mey, Wolfram
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-23
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.10
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Homaloxestis lophophora
Janse, 1954
(
Figs. 3
)
Homaloxestis lophophora
Janse, 1954: 341
;
Vári
et al
. 2002: 57
;
Park & De Prins 2019a: 475
.
Type
locality: Pretoria,
South Africa
. [TMSA].
Homaloxestis cholopis
auct., (nec
Meyrick 1906
);
Gozmány 1978: 67
(as synonym);
Park 2018: 562
(misidentification).
Material examined:
[
DR Congo
],
1♂
,
Coll. Mus.
Congo
, [
Katanga
],
Elisabethville
[
Lubumbashi
],
iii 1932
, Ch
.
Seydel gen. slide no. CIS-7298;
3♂
, same locality and collector,
iv 1932
;
1♀
, same locality and collector,
28 ii 1935
;
2♂
, same locality and collector,
15 ix 1936
&
14 x 1936
;
1♀
, same locality and collector,
i 1937
;
2♂
, same locality and collector,
x 1949
;
1♂
, same locality and collector,
14 iii 1950
;
1♀
, same locality and collector, iv–v 1952. [
Tanzania
]
,
1♀
,
Morogoro Distr.
&
Town
,
500–600 m
,
2 x 1992
, leg., L. Aarvik, gen. slide no. CIS-7174. [
Uganda
],
1♂
,
Mpanga Forest
,
1210 m
,
Ecotourism Centre
,
Nordrand
, ca.
3 km
SW
Mpigi
,
Rand Regenwald
, 0˚12’22’’N 32˚18’5’’E,
31 xi 2014
,
LF, leg.
K.-R. Beck
, COI barcode
CBNU072
.
FIGURE 2
.
Homaloxestis lactizonalis
sp. nov.
: A, adult, holotype; B, ditto, lateral view; C, venation, wing slide no. CIS-7117/ Park; D, male genitalia, gen. slide no. CIS-7254/Park; E, ditto, aedeagus; F, abdominal segments VII–VIII. Scale bar: D, E = 0.5 mm.
Distribution.
Cameroon
(
Park 2018
;
De Prins & De Prins 2019
),
Gabon
(
Park 2018
),
Kenya
(
Park & De Prins 2019b
),
South Africa
(
Janse 1954
),
DR Congo
(
new record
),
Tanzania
(
new record
),
Uganda
(
new record
).
Remarks. S
ince Gozmány synonymized
H. lophophora
with
H. cholopis (Meyrick)
, the identification of
H. lophophora
has been confused by recent authors, including
Park (2018)
. Recently
Park & De Prins (2019b)
re-examined both species, comparing their male & female genitalia, and re-established
H. lophophora
as a valid species which is supported by COI barcode sequences (
Fig. 3
).