The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa
Author
Agassiz, David
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-09
5174
2
101
156
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1
1175-5326
6986011
FDA769F6-538A-4E07-8166-684850930C16
Goniophysetis lactealis
Hampson, 1916
.
Goniophysetis lactealis
Hampson, 1916: 368
.
Type
locality:
Nairobi.
Redescription of adult
Imago (fig.7): Wingspan
24–30 mm
. Head white, maxillary palpus with terminal tuft of brown hairs, labial palpus just longer than diameter of eye, dark brown densely clothed with hairs, antenna serrate, whitish. Thorax and tegulae white. Forewing ground colour white, increasingly suffused reddish brown distally, an irregular linear brown antemedian fascia, white lunule in disc, angled linear fascia to tornus, beyond this darker reddish brown suffusion, a blackish line along termen. Hindwing with two fascias roughly mirroring forewing, the other fascia with dark brown spots towards dorsum, termen with blackish line, scalloped with long hairs at each node. Abdomen whitish, ferruginous distally. Legs whitish.
Male genitalia (fig. 54): Uncus broad, spatulate with basal lateral lobes, gnathos simple, much shorter than uncus; valva digitate with small lobe halfway, sacculus also digitate half length of valva, a slender pointed appendage dorsal to valva and very slightly longer; a pair of slender pointed processes from vinculum extending beyond valvae. Aedeagus slender and simple 1.5× length of armature.
Female genitalia: not examined.
Diagnosis: The scalloped margin of the hindwing separates this from other species.
Life history: not known.
Distribution:
Kenya
,
Uganda
,
Botswana
,
South Africa
,
Swaziland
.
Type material:
Holotype
♂
Nairobi,
30.iii.1911
, T.J. Anderson, BM
Pyralidae
genitalia slide 8649;
Paratype
♀
same locality
3.ix.1911
(
NHMUK
)
.
Other material examined:
KENYA
:
2♀
Nairobi
,
April 1960
& undated (
F.J.Jackson
) (
NHMUK
)
;
1♂
25.iv.2000
2♀
18.iv.1999
Oluloa Forest
NMK-IPR
Compound
01° 22’ S
36° 43’ E
,
1800m
B. Bytebier
(
NMK
)
;
1♂
3♀
same locality
11.iv.1999
,
1♂
3♀
18.iv.1999
and
1♀
4.v.2000
(
ABSRC
)
;
1♂
1♀
Loresho Bridge
,
Nairobi
,
iii.1976
M.P. Clifton
;
1♀
Nairobi
iv.1961
R.H. Carcasson
;
1♂
Nairobi
iv.1958
R. Carcasson
(
NMK
)
;
1♂
1♀
Rift Valley
,
Rumuruti
1800m
.
00° 20’ N
36° 15’ E
30.iv.2003
, D.J.L.
Agassiz
(
DJLA
)
;
UGANDA
:
1♀
Suna, S
.
Kavirondo
,
April 1932
(
W. Feather
) (
NHMUK
)
;
BOTSWANA
:
1♀
Kawana
13.xii.1974
Scholz
&
Kirsten
;
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Alexandria
(
Langebos
)
27–29.ix.1954
L. Vári
;
1♂
Duivelskloef
23.i.1925
A.J.T Janse
,
1♂
Nitwalen
10.i.1916
A.J.T. Jansem
1 specimen
without abdomen
Pretoriuskop
23–24.xi.1966
Potgieter
&
Goode
;
1♀
SWAZILAND
18.ii.1984
N.J.
Duke
(
TMSA
)
.