Sonitha adetoun - a new species from the Congolian lowland forests (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Gastropachini)
Author
Tejuoso, Olanrewaju
Author
Friend, Herman L.
Author
Prozorov, Alexey M.
Author
Yakovlev, Roman V.
Author
Saldaitis, Aidas
Author
Prozorova, Tatiana A.
Author
Sulak, Harald
Author
Volkova, Julia S.
Author
Murphy, Raymond J.
Author
Revay, Edita E.
Author
Müller, Günter C.
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2024
2024-03-27
72
71
80
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.72.6
journal article
10.37828/em.2024.72.6
2336-9744
13247629
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6DC340B8
Sonitha integra
Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010
https://zoobank.org/
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
26A43EF3-A550-4D4F-BCBD-B717E219FF11
(
Figs 4–6
,
8, 10
,
12
)
New records
:
4♂
,
DRC
, Mai-
Ndombe
,
Ekongo
camp,
2.75613 S
,
20.31538 E
,
350 m
,
X.2017
,
XII.2017
,
II.2018
, leg.
A. Prozorov
, T. Prozorova
et al
., GS 0999, 1018 (
CGM
/
USTTB
).
Altogether
5♂
and
♀
are known to us.
Distribution
(
Fig. 10
). Central Congolian lowland forests and eastern Congolian swamp forests in
DRC
.
Biology
. Adults were collected in II, III, X, XII from altitudes up to 350 meters a.s.l. Preimaginal stages remain unknown.