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(
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,
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)
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<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C308396601233FED8" box="[151,367,258,280]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">Asura discocellularis</emphasis>
Strand, 1912
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,
<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C3217966111D1FED8" box="[515,653,258,280]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">Arch. Naturg.</emphasis>
LXXVIII 9: 100.
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, 2280: 32.
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<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C3083960012DFFEBC" bold="true" box="[151,387,355,380]" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">Material examined</emphasis>
:
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, Ipassa-Makokou, Ivindo National Park (
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,
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, FebruaryApril
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<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C30D196CF1265FE04" bold="true" box="[197,313,428,452]" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">Remarks.</emphasis>
Hitherto recorded from
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and
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(
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). New for the
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. The Gabonese population of
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is characterized by a more slender and acute termination of the supravalva if compared to other localities (
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). In addition, some specimens (e.g., g. prep. 585 and 588 MAD) present a less gradual extension (almost hook-like) of the dorsal margin of the supravalvar termination (see
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); the gradual nature of this character and the lack of other differential characters lead to considering all the examined specimens belongings to the same species. The hook-like variation is similar to that figured by
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and reported as
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(
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. However, as the
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has not been examined by
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, nor by
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, at the moment seems preferable to keep the synonymy of
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established by
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with
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<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C333C95AF1756FD24" box="[808,1034,716,740]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">Afrasura obliterata</emphasis>
(Walker, 1864)
</taxonomicName>
and to consider
<taxonomicName id="E6854D0EFFBAFF8C308D95931262FCC8" box="[153,318,752,776]" class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Afrasura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="386" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="discocellularis">
<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C308D95931262FCC8" box="[153,318,752,776]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">discocellularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as valid due to the strong differences with
<taxonomicName id="E6854D0EFFBAFF8C3352959310E8FCC8" box="[838,948,752,776]" class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Afrasura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="386" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obliterata">
<emphasis id="13F1EA9FFFBAFF8C3352959310E8FCC8" box="[838,948,752,776]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="386">obliterata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the female genitalia (male and female genitalia figured in
<bibRefCitation id="45144B7CFFBAFF8C316E94761146FCEC" author="Durante" box="[378,538,788,812]" pageId="3" pageNumber="386" refString="Durante, A. (2009) Revision of the Afrotropical species of Asura Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Lithosiinae), with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa, 2280, 27 - 52." type="journal article" year="2009">Durante 2009</bibRefCitation>
). Wings shape, pattern and colour are not significantly different from the West African populations.
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