The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa
Author
Agassiz, David
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-09
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2
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1
1175-5326
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Trichophysetis whitei
Rebel, 1906
Trichophysetis whitei
Rebel, 1906: 22
.
Imago (fig. 19): Wingspan
12-15mm
. Head whitish, labial palpus in male heavily scaled, brownish, in female long dark brown and pointed, segment 3 just shorter than segment 2; maxillary palpus immediately above labial palpus and less than half its length. Thorax and tegulae ochreous white. Forewing ground colour velvety white, suffused pale brown, a pale brownish subbasal fascia, angulate median fascia, white slender discal spot, strongly angulate subterminal fascia, preterminal fascia sinuate close to apex. Hindwing with two median fascias close together with blackening of lines near dorsum, two black spots on termen. Abdomen with central segments black to align with dark markings on hindwings.
Male genitalia (fig. 61): Uncus with parallel sides, gnathos ¾ length of uncus; aedeagus digitate, narrow; sacculus with curved apex, 1.4 × length of valva, a symmetrical pair of processes adjacent to valvae with tufts of setae at apex directed inwards. Aedeagus simple, almost straight, 1.5 × length of uncus. Tergite 8 with a weakly sclerotised central point.
Female genitalia (fig. 92): Ostial plate spade-shaped, ostium compact, antrum with sclerotised belt, ductus bursae short, widening into scobinate sac near base of membranous corpus bursae.
Diagnosis: Very similar to the Asian
duplifascialis
as well as
samueli
from Africa, distinguished by the sinuate terminal line just beneath apex.
Life history: Larva feeds among flowers of
Jasminium odoratissimum
in the Canary Islands. Has been reared from
Jasminium fluminense
(in fruit) in
South Africa
. Probably on other
Jasminium
spp.
Diagnosis: Similar to the Asian species
duplifascialis
Hampson, terminal line of forewing sinuate, uncus of male genitalia narrow.
Distribution:
Ethiopia
,
Kenya
,
Uganda
,
Tanzania
,
Zimbabwe
,
South Africa
,
Angola
, D.R.
Congo
,
Nigeria
,
Cameroon
,
Zambia
,
Sierra Leone
,
The Gambia
,
Madagascar
, Canary Islands.
Material examined: 1 Canary,
iv.1885
Leech coll.; 1 Teneriffe. W. White (1904–289); 1 Guimar, Tenerife
13.iii.1907
Walsingham; 1 Ins Canarian Ten. Guimar
1–7.vi.1965
J. Klimesch (NHMUK);
Spain
:
Tenerife
:
1♂
Güimar. La Ladera.
Jasminium odoratissimum
800 m
27.iv.1988
K. Larsen
;
Spain
:
Tenerife
:
2♂
1♀
La Tierra del Trigo.
300 m
19.iv.1988
Jasminium odoratissimum
K. Larsen
including DJLA slide 1564 (
DJLA
)
;
KENYA
:
Central
,
Aberdares Country Club
6500 ft
,
19.vi.1999
D.J.L.
Agassiz
(
DJLA
)
;
1♀
Nairobi
5400ft.
21.vii.1949
J.A.
Riley
(
NHMUK
)
;
UGANDA
:
1♂
Central
,
Mpanga Forest
1207m
0° 12’ 22”N
32° 46’ 10”E
27.x.2014
D.J.L. Agassiz
(
DJLA
)
;
1♂
Kampala
22.xi.1952
C.G.M. de Worms
;
1♂
1♀
Kampala
4.xii.1935
H.
Hargreaves
(
NHMUK
)
;
TANZANIA
:
1♀
Tanga
,
Amani
5° 06’ 02” S
38° 39’ 10”E
25.iv.2001
;
1♀
Marangu
3° 17’ 46” S
37° 21’ 29”E
4400ft
28.iv.2001
D.J.L. Agassiz
;
ZIMBABWE
:
1♂
Manicaland
,
Upper Bvumba
19° 07’ 15”S
32° 46’ 10”E
3.xi.2016
(
DJLA
)
;
1♂
Mutare
30.xii.1993
D.J.L.
Agassiz
(
NHMUK
)
;
ETHIOPIA
:
1♀
Addis Ababa
c.
8000ft
1-4.x.1948
Hugh Scott
det PES
Whalley
as
Trichophysetis cretacea
Butler
?; D.R
.
CONGO
:
1♂
Bas-Congo
320m
Nat. Res. Luki-Mayumba
5° 27’ S
113° 65’ E
12.iv.2006
leg
J De Prins
;
1♂
same locality
22.iii.2006
leg J & W
De Prins
;
SIERRA LEONE
:
1♂
Bo
,
xi.1967
R.J. Revell
;
NIGERIA
:
1♀
Ikoy
Lagos
5700ft
at light
3.i.1975
M.A. Corne
;
1♂
Zaria
,
Samaru
2.xi.1977
J.C. Deeming
;
MADAGASCAR
:
1♂
Diego Suarez
,
June 15. 1917
;
1♂
22-24.vii.1917
;
1♀
24.vii.1917
(G. Melou);
1♀
Province Mahajana
,
Tsingy de Naomroka
N. P.
16° 28.154’ S
45° 20.890’ E
125m
02-13.ix.2012
G. Martin
;
ZAMBIA
:
1♀
Mbale
1-17.vi.1974
Locust Ctrl Ctr
.;
GAMBIA
:
1♂
Bathurst
,
Carter
18..
;
SOUTH AFRICA
:
1♀
Cape
Town
,
Constantia Vista
13.x.2009
Turm leg. W. Mey,
Mpumalunga
,
Barberton
, nördlicher
Ortsrand
, suburbanes Garten- und
Buschland
, 14/
15.i.2007
LF,
610 m
T. Karisch
legit
;
NAMIBIA
:
Kunene
Epupa Falls
21–23.ii.2008
LF leg.
W. Mey
(
MfN
)
;
KENYA
:
1♀
Rift Valley
,
Matthews Range
KWS campsite
01° 10’ 41.3” N
37° 12’ 57.9” E
1331 m
9.xii.2002
K. Maes
;
1♀
Marich Pass
26–29.vii.1999
K.
Maes
;
2♂
Nairobi
,
Oluloa Forest
NMK-IPR
Compound
01° 22’ S
36° 43’ E
,
1800m
4.vii.1999
B. Bytebier
,
1♂
same locality
13.vi.1999
,
1♂
8.vi.1999
,
1♂
25.vii.1999
;
1♀
Coast
,
Kilifi
,
Coastal Forest
Edge
3° 37’ S
39° 50’ E
75 n 3,
i.1997
K. Maes
;
CAMEROON
:
1♀
Ouest
,
Foumban
1100 m
25.vi.1989
M.Maes
KVNM slide 457,
1♂
Nkongaeyos
(
Yaounde
)
1100 m
K.
Maes
(
ABSRC
)
.