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(
<figureCitation id="1379E9B85D10FF9157FD507FFE87F811" box="[159,288,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 6180" captionStartId="41.[151,264,1622,1646]" captionTargetBox="[172,1413,190,1591]" captionTargetId="figure-17@41.[165,1423,181,1597]" captionTargetPageId="41" captionText="FIGURES 6180. Adults, dorsal view. 61. Afroracotis longicornuta sp. n., HT, ♁, Liberia (ANHRT); 62. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Guinea (ANHRT); 63. A. l. congolana ssp. n., HT, ♁, Cameroon (RCMO); 64. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Cameroon (ZSM); 65. Ibidem, PT, ♁, DRC (NHMUK); 66. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Cameroon (ZSM); 67. A. l. ugandana ssp. n., HT, ♁, Uganda (RCHS); 68. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Uganda (RCHS); 69. A. aristophanousi sp. n., HT, ♁, Liberia (ANHRT); 70. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Cameroon (ZSM); 71. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Uganda (NHMUK); 72. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Cameroon (ZSM); 73. A. muscivirens sp. n., HT, ♁, Liberia (ZSM); 74. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Ivory Coast (ZSM); 75. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Liberia (ANHRT); 76. A. turlini sp. n., HT, ♁, Rwanda (ZSM); 77. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Rwanda (ZSM); 78. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Rwanda (ZSM); 79. A. atriclava, ST of Cleora atriclava, ♁, Madagascar (NHMUK); 80. Ibidem, ♀, Madagascar (ZSM)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8080937" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8080937/files/figure.png" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Figs 7980</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="1379E9B85D10FF91564E507FFE36F811" box="[300,401,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 171190" captionStartId="80.[151,264,1643,1667]" captionTargetBox="[182,1405,190,1613]" captionTargetId="figure-21@80.[175,1413,181,1619]" captionTargetPageId="80" captionText="FIGURES 171190. Adults, ventral view. 171. Afroracotis atriclava, ST of Cleora atriclava, ♁, Madagascar (ZSM); 172. Ibidem, ST, ♀, Madagascar (ZSM); 173. A. turlini sp. n., PT, ♁, Rwanda (ZSM); 174. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Rwanda (ZSM); 175. A. zebrina, LT of Racotis zebrina, ♁, Nigeria (NHMUK); 176. A. zebrina, ♁, Guinea (ANHRT); 177. Ibidem, ♁, Liberia (ANHRT); 178. Ibidem, ♀, Ivory Coast (ANHRT); 179. A. chaineyi sp. n., HT, ♁, Gabon (ANHRT); 180. Ibidem, PT, ♁, Cameroon (ZSM); 181. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Bioko (ZSM); 182. A. lydiae lydiae sp. n., PT, ♁, Liberia (ANHRT); 183. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Guinea (ANHRT); 184. A. lydiae orientalis ssp. n., HT, ♁, Tanzania (ANHRT); 185. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Tanzania (ANHRT); 186. A. madagascariensis, ♁, Madagascar (NHMUK); 187. Ibidem, ♀, Madagascar (ANHRT); 188. A. smithi sp. n., HT, ♁, Zambia (ANHRT); 189. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Zambia (ANHRT); 190. Ibidem, PT, ♀, Cameroon (ZSM)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8080952" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8080952/files/figure.png" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">171172</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="1379E9B85D10FF9156FE507EFE6EF811" box="[412,457,1914,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 251255" captionStartId="88.[151,264,1832,1856]" captionTargetBox="[158,1431,190,1802]" captionTargetId="figure-21@88.[152,1435,181,1808]" captionTargetPageId="88" captionText="FIGURES 251255. Male genitalia, a: clasping apparatus, b: aedeagus. 251. Afroracotis muscivirens sp. n., PT, Ivory Coast, slide No. LG 4617 (ZSM); 252. A. atriclava, ST of Cleora atriclava, Madagascar, slide No. LG 5039 (ZSM); 253. A. turlini sp. n., HT, Rwanda, slide No. LG 4619 (ZSM). 254. Afroracotis zebrina, Ivory Coast, slide No. LG 4176 (ANHRT); 255. Ibidem, Liberia, slide No. LG 4965 (ANHRT)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8080974" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8080974/files/figure.png" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">252</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="1379E9B85D10FF9156B6507FFE58F811" box="[468,511,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 314319" captionStartId="98.[151,264,1722,1746]" captionTargetBox="[223,1364,187,1692]" captionTargetId="figure-21@98.[216,1371,181,1698]" captionTargetPageId="98" captionText="FIGURES 314319. Female genitalia. 314. Afroracotis aristophanousi sp. n., PT, Ghana, slide No.: NHMUK 010316165 (NHMUK); 315. Ibidem, PT, Cameroon, slide No.: LG 5045 (ZSM); 316. Ibidem, PT, Cameroon, slide No.: LG 5849 (RMCA); 317. A. atriclava, ST, Madagascar, slide No.: LG 5040 (ZSM); 318. A. muscivirens sp. n., PT, Liberia, slide No.: LG 5430 (ANHRT); 319. A. turlini sp. n., PT, Rwanda, slide No.: LG 4773 (ZSM)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8080999" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8080999/files/figure.png" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">317</figureCitation>
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: 183.
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(NHMUK). Type locality:
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<date id="FFFCD3FD5D13FF92547057DBFC09FF7D" box="[786,942,223,250]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" value="1917-06-27">27 June 1917</date>
, (G. Melou).” / [with handwritten] “
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♁ type Prout”, QR code label with unique id.: NHMUK 010598637, gen. slide No.:
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4943 (
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(G. Melou).” / [with handwritten] “
<taxonomicName id="4C428EBE5D13FF9256EE564FFD2EFEE1" authority="Prout" authorityName="Prout" authorityYear="1926" box="[396,649,331,357]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Cleora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atriclava">Cleora atriclava Prout</taxonomicName>
” / [blue label] “Photographed for the project “
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. (G. Melou).” / [with handwritten] “
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”, gen. slide No.: LG 5040 (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFDF53D5D13FF9257A556B3FDE8FDBA" blockId="46.[151,1437,223,1186]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9257A556B3FE22FE55" bold="true" box="[199,389,439,465]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Taxonomic note</emphasis>
. In the original description,
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suggested a possible relationship between
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF92525556B3FA3BFE55" box="[1335,1436,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">atriclava</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9257A556D8FE25FE71" box="[199,386,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Racotis squalida</emphasis>
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, but assigned the species to the genus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF92545056DFFC27FE71" box="[818,896,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Cleora</emphasis>
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which was maintained by
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. Based on the diagnostic genitalia characters discussed below, the species is transferred here to the genus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF92538F56FBFACBFD9D" box="[1261,1388,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Afroracotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and placed in the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9256FE5527FDE0FDB9" box="[412,583,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Herbuloracotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C358A6B65D13FF9257A55543FE5EFBFA" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BFDF53D5D13FF9257A55543FC4DFBB1" blockId="46.[151,1437,223,1186]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9257A55543FE9DFDE5" bold="true" box="[199,314,583,609]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Forewing length
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.
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9255FA5543FC22FDE5" box="[664,901,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Afroracotis atriclava</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the smallest species of the genus and easily distinguished from other
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9256DC556FFD9AFD01" box="[446,573,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Afroracotis</emphasis>
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by the brownish-grey colouration scattered densely with rusty scales, the conspicuous black, quadrangular postmedial patch of the forewing and the sharply defined, strongly undulate medial fascia of the forewing. The male genital morphology suggests its placement in the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9253D555B7FAC5FD49" box="[1207,1378,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Herbuloracotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with the following diagnostis characters:
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF92554855D3FD0AFD75" box="[554,685,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">A. atriclava</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the widest, apically most broadly rounded uncus, the narrowest medial plate of gnathos, and the slimmest valva and vinculum compared to those of other taxa of the species-group. The tubular aedeagus of
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9256D8541BFDE5FCBD" box="[442,578,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">A. atriclava</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is medium long and relatively narrow, gently curved, the vesica is rather short and thick, cylindrical, bearing a large, robust, medially slightly dilated and arched, apically pointed, sword-shaped cornutus distally. The female genitalia of
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9255A15463FCEFFC05" box="[707,840,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">A. atriclava</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
display certain unique features in the subgenus such as the well-sclerotised, deep cup-shaped antrum, the anteriorly strongly dilated, membranous, funnel-shaped ductus bursae, and the moderately sclerotised, longitudinally densely rugose, cylindrical cervix bursae forming the distal two-thirds of the bursa copulatrix. The anterior third of the bursa copulatrix is sclerotised without a rugose surface, strongly tapered subapically ending in a narrow, rounded, heavily sclerotised anterior protrusion supposedly serving as a receptive sheath of the large, sword-shaped cornutus during copulation.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFDF53D5D13FF9257A5533BFE5EFBFA" blockId="46.[151,1437,223,1186]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9257A5533BFE62FBDD" bold="true" box="[199,453,1087,1113]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Genetic information.</emphasis>
As only rather old specimens could be accessed in the course of this study, DNA sequencing was not carried out.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C358A6B65D13FF9257A55383FBF7FB25" box="[199,1104,1159,1186]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BFDF53D5D13FF9257A55383FBF7FB25" blockId="46.[151,1437,223,1186]" box="[199,1104,1159,1186]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9257A55383FEFEFB25" bold="true" box="[199,345,1159,1185]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Distribution</emphasis>
(
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).
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D13FF9256AB5383FD13FB25" box="[457,692,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Afroracotis atriclava</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a species endemic to
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.
</paragraph>
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