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 clarissima Hausmann & Tujuba
sp. nov.
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Examined material.
Holotype
: ♀, Kibwezi, B.E.A. [Kenya], 12 March 1917 (W. Feather), coll. ZSM (ZSM G 13618).
Paratypes
: 1♂, Kibwezi, B.E.A. [Kenya], April 1922 (W. Feather); 1♂, Kenya, Mutha, 5.IV.69, Watulege; 1♀, Kenya, Musthomo, 13.III.69, Watulege (ZSM G 13617); 1♂, Somalia m., Caonole
Fluss
, 21.1.1988, leg. Dr. Politzar (all ZSM). ZSM G 13647/♂.
Etymology.
The name refers to the very pale ground colour (Lat. clarissimus, -a, -um = palest, clearest).
Differential features
(COI sequences, photographs of adults and their genitalia see https://dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-ORBAMIA): Adult: Forewing length: 7.5-11 mm, one of the smallest
Orbamia
species. Upperside of wings: Ground colour whitish with slight grey brown suffusion. Underside: Ground colour white with slight orange tinge, mainly towards termen between veins, apical spots on all wings conspicuous, sharp. Male genitalia: Uncus long, digitiform, stout, valva straight, dorsal process with small spinule at tip, cornutus very short (1.0 mm) and tiny. Female genitalia: Apophyses stout, apophyses anteriores comparatively long (2/3 length of apophyses posteriores), lamella ante-vaginalis heart-shaped (length and width 0.45 mm), signum small, sclerotised, transverse ridge straight (0.15 mm).