Three new genera and ten new species of the subfamily Lecithocerinae (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from Cameroon, Africa, based on material collected in 1913 - 18
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
text
Zootaxa
2018
4415
3
561
579
journal article
30138
10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.9
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1175-5326
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Genus
Homaloxestis
Meyrick, 1910
Homaloxestis
Meyrick
is a predominantly
Oriental
genus which comprises about 50 described species. Four species have been reported from Africa:
H. cholopis
Meyrick
from
South
Africa
,
H. hemigastra
Meyrick
from
Uganda
,
H. pancrocopa
Meyrick
from
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo
, and
H. subpallida
Meyrick
from
Cameroon
.
Janse (1954)
described
H. lophophora
from Pretoria,
South
Africa
, but the species was later synonymized with
H. cholopis
Meyrick
by
Gozmány (1978)
.