Review of the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) in DR Congo, with description of four new species
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
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Author
Koo, Jun-Mo
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Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB 28644, Korea & taran 9539 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2639 - 6456
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Author
Jeong, Su-Yeon
0009-0000-2944-4949
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB 28644, Korea & sophomore 2017 @ naver. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 2944 - 4949
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Author
Prins, Jurate De
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Author
Prins, Willy De
0000-0002-4430-1425
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & willy. deprins @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4430 - 1425
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-31
5339
4
355
368
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.2
1175-5326
8309122
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7.
Lecithocera lucernata
Meyrick, 1913
Lecithocera lucernata
Meyrick, 1913: 294
;
Ghesquière 1940: 58
;
Janse 1954: 343
(
Leviptera
Janse, 1954
);
Park & De Prins 2019b: 73
;
Park
et al.
2021: 359
.
Type locality:
South Africa
, Pretoria; Type depository:
holotype
male in TMSA.
Distribution.
DR Congo
(
Ghesquière 1940
),
Namibia
(
Park & De Prins 2019b
),
South Africa
(
Meyrick 1913
).
Remarks.
This species was reported from
DR Congo
by
Ghesquière (1940)
based on material collected from Elisabethville (leg. Seydel). The male genitalia were illustrated by
Janse (1954
, Pl. 142,
Fig. 1
; Pl. 152,
Fig. 3
; Pl. 174,
Fig. 6
), and the female genitalia by
Park & De Prins (2019b
,
Fig. 6B
).