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<mods:title>On the fauna of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Lesotho</mods:title>
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<figureCitation box="[560,687,243,269]" captionStart="Figs 7–12" captionStartId="6.[144,183,1602,1624]" captionTargetBox="[190,1072,447,1577]" captionTargetId="figure-83@6.[155,1093,440,1586]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 7–12. New plume moths from Lesotho: (7–9) Hellinsia basuto sp. n., habitus (7), female genitalia (8), male genitalia (9); (10–12) 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 10–12</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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, described from
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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 7–12. New plume moths from Lesotho: (7–9)
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, habitus, photo (10) and drawing (11), male genitalia (12).
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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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. Kovtunovich &A. Sochivko.
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&
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<collectorName box="[834,884,744,765]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Jones</collectorName>
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(
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<collectionCode box="[895,948,743,764]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">CUK</collectionCode>
|
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).
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||
<emphasis box="[961,1102,743,764]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">
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<collectingRegion box="[961,1102,743,764]" country="South Africa" name="KwaZulu-Natal" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">KwaZulu-Natal</collectingRegion>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
:
|
||
<specimenCount box="[1113,1141,743,764]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
|
||
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C91C87D28670FF84DDF93EF8E3568AA6:446A601F8671FF84DCAE3CCCE0988A6D" box="[181,387,767,789]" country="South Africa" latitude="-28.688889" longLatPrecision="20" longitude="28.938889" municipality="Survey" name="Royal Natal Nat. Park" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" stateProvince="KwaZulu-Natal">Royal Natal Nat. Park</location>
|
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,
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||
<geoCoordinate box="[397,501,767,789]" degrees="28" direction="south" minutes="41" orientation="latitude" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" precision="15" seconds="20" value="-28.688889">28°41'20"S</geoCoordinate>
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||
:
|
||
<geoCoordinate box="[504,613,767,789]" degrees="28" direction="east" minutes="56" orientation="longitude" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" precision="15" seconds="20" value="28.938889">28°56'20"E</geoCoordinate>
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||
,
|
||
<quantity box="[623,695,767,789]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.48" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" unit="m" value="1480.0">
|
||
<elevation box="[623,695,767,789]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.48" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" unit="m" value="1480.0">1480 m</elevation>
|
||
</quantity>
|
||
,
|
||
<date box="[705,846,767,789]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" value="2004-12-10" valueMax="2004-12-12" valueMin="2004-12-10">
|
||
<collectingDate box="[705,846,767,789]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" value="2004-12-10" valueMax="2004-12-12" valueMin="2004-12-10">10–12 xii.2004</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
, P.
|
||
<collectorName box="[879,991,767,789]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">Ustjuzhanin</collectorName>
|
||
, at light (
|
||
<collectionCode box="[1079,1132,767,788]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">CUK</collectionCode>
|
||
);
|
||
<specimenCount box="[181,209,791,812]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
|
||
same data but
|
||
<date box="[346,474,791,813]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" value="2005-12-08" valueMax="2005-12-12" valueMin="2005-12-08">
|
||
<collectingDate box="[346,474,791,813]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174" value="2005-12-08" valueMax="2005-12-12" valueMin="2005-12-08">8–12 xii.2005</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
, 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>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="7.[181,1143,204,990]" box="[181,626,828,854]" pageId="7" pageNumber="174">
|
||
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>
|
||
</document> |