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<document ID-DOI="10.5733/afin.052.0108" ID-ISSN="2305-2562" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7914441" IM.bibliography_approvedBy="juliana" IM.illustrations_approvedBy="juliana" IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="juliana" IM.metadata_approvedBy="juliana" IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="juliana" IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="juliana" IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana" checkinTime="1683579525572" checkinUser="felipe" docAuthor="Kovtunovich, Vasily &amp; Ustjuzhanin, Petr" docDate="2011" docId="C91C87D28670FF84DDF93EF8E3568AA6" docLanguage="en" docName="AfrInvertebr.52.1.167-175.pdf" docOrigin="African Invertebrates 52 (1)" docSource="http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.052.0108" docStyle="DocumentStyle:B78C63EC8CEBBB75364A82B35BB1F83D.3:AfrInvertebr.2008-2015.journal_article.0cover" docStyleId="B78C63EC8CEBBB75364A82B35BB1F83D" docStyleName="AfrInvertebr.2008-2015.journal_article.0cover" docStyleVersion="3" docTitle="Merrifieldia innae Kovtunovich &amp; Ustjuzhanin 2011, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="174" masterDocId="3525FFAA8676FF83DC1B3E33E11B8978" masterDocTitle="On the fauna of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Lesotho" masterLastPageNumber="167" masterPageNumber="167" pageNumber="173" updateTime="1683635604620" updateUser="ExternalLinkService" zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[482,698,203,229]" pageId="6" pageNumber="173">Merrifieldia innae</emphasis>
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<figureCitation box="[560,687,243,269]" captionStart="Figs 712" captionStartId="6.[144,183,1602,1624]" captionTargetBox="[190,1072,447,1577]" captionTargetId="figure-83@6.[155,1093,440,1586]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 712. New plume moths from Lesotho: (79) Hellinsia basuto sp. n., habitus (7), female genitalia (8), male genitalia (9); (1012) Merrifieldia innae sp. n., habitus, photo (10) and drawing (11), male genitalia (12)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7914447" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7914447/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="173">Figs 1012</figureCitation>
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<paragraph blockId="6.[144,1104,203,382]" box="[144,771,283,310]" pageId="6" pageNumber="173">Etymology: The species is named after Inna Kuleshova.</paragraph>
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Diagnosis: Outwardly and in the overall habitus of male genitalia, the new species is similar to
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Arenberger
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, but differs well from the latter by the absence of harpa on the right valva and a larger and bent harpa on the left valva.
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Figs 712. New plume moths from Lesotho: (79)
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, habitus (7), female genitalia (8), male genitalia (9); (1012)
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, habitus, photo (10) and drawing (11), male genitalia (12).
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<paragraph blockId="7.[181,1143,204,990]" box="[181,321,276,302]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Description:</paragraph>
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External characters. Forehead smooth, with tightly pressed yellow-brown scales. Labial palps thin, slightly longer than eye diameter. Antennae slender, light brown, slightly indented. Forewing length in
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. Wingspan
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). Forewings yellowish brown; at cleft base is barely noticeable dark dot. Hindwings dull yellow-brown.
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genitalia.
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asymmetric; well-developed sclerotized harpa on left valva, smoothly bent towards upper, outer edge of valva.
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costal projection of left valva reaches apex.
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triangular ruga in middle of right valva.
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slightly curved, pointed towards apex.
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short, almost straight, with small triangular protrusion at apex.
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N of Mafolaneng
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,
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,
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(
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, genit. prep. 14807).
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:
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:
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,
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,
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,
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(
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, genit. prep. 14720);
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W Sani Pass
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,
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,
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</materialsCitation>
. Kovtunovich &amp;A. Sochivko.
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:
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:
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,
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,
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,
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&amp;
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(
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).
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:
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,
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:
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, P.
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, at light (
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);
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same data but
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, at light, M.
<collectorName box="[589,685,791,813]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Mostovski</collectorName>
(
<collectionCode box="[697,768,791,812]" country="South Africa" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34985" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34985" name="KwaZulu-Natal Museum" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" type="Museum">NMSA</collectionCode>
)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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Distribution:
<collectingCountry box="[332,422,828,854]" name="Lesotho" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Lesotho</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry box="[476,622,828,854]" name="South Africa" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">South Africa</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[181,1143,204,990]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">
Notes: The representatives of this genus are mainly distributed in the western Palaearctic. Up to now, only one species,
<taxonomicName authority="Arenberger" authorityName="Arenberger" authorityYear="2001" box="[505,786,900,926]" class="Insecta" family="Pterophoridae" genus="Merrifieldia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="improvisa">
<emphasis box="[505,652,900,925]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">M. improvisa</emphasis>
Arenberger
</taxonomicName>
, has been known from the Afroropics (
<collectingCountry box="[265,343,932,958]" name="Kenya" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Kenya</collectingCountry>
;
<bibRefCitation author="ARENBERGER, E." box="[353,547,932,958]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" pagination="31 - 36" refId="ref3861" refString="ARENBERGER, E. 2001. Beitrag zur Pterophordenfauna Kenyas (Lepidoptera). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreichischer Entomologen 53: 31 - 36." type="journal article" year="2001">Arenberger 2001</bibRefCitation>
). The new species inhabits mountain grassland at the altitude of about
<quantity box="[372,457,963,990]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" unit="m" value="1500.0">1500 m</quantity>
and higher.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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