Two new tiger-moth species from Afrotropics with reviews of genera Pericaliella and Monstruncusarctia (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea: Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Dubаtolov, Vlаdimir V.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-24
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3.11
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Pericaliella popoudinae
sp. n.
(
Fig. 2
)
Pericaliella melanodisca
, Dubatolov, 2006: 150
, figs 23, 51, incorrect identification.
Type
material.
Holotype—
♂
,
Rwanda
, Butare, beginning 2014, leg.
V. Popoudina
(
SZMN
).
Description.
Forewing length
13.5 mm
; forewings light brown speckled by darker scales; other pattern is reduced and consists of one costal antemedial spot, wide diffuse discal spot, apical line directed towards vein M1, and a series of marginal internervular spots; hindwings light brown with three submarginal and one small discal spots.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 7–8
): uncus long and narrow, slightly curved, with large bulbous dorsal projection; valves consisting of wide base and two narrow processes, basal is very short and directed upwards, rounded at apex, apical one is four times longer and straight; juxta broad, saccus triangular, aedeagus straight, with small spines on apex, vesica bag-like, with three separate apical portions, two of them covered with small granulation.
Remarks.
The new species differs from the nominotypical one by the bulbous dorsal process on tegumen; short (four time shorter than apical process) and straight basal processes on valves, straight apical valve processes. By the wing pattern, the new species is characterized by reduction of a dark pattern on the forewings without any transversal bands.
Etymology.
the species is named after Mrs.
А
. Popoudina (
Novosibirsk
,
Russia
) who collected the new species.