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<mods:title>Revision of Saalmulleria Mabille, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Metarbelidae) from Madagascar with the description of three new genera and fifteen new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Lehmann, Ingo</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="https://zoobank.org/D58EF90A-CD76-44EE-A349-4D6F7A79FD27" authority="Lehmann & Dalsgaard, 2023" authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" family="Metarbelidae" genus="Shimbania" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Shimbania krooni" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="species" species="krooni" status="sp. nov.">Shimbania krooni</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. a. Shimbania wanjakinuthiaae sp. nov., holotype, male, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, ca. 5 km north of Hluhluwe, probably collected on Hluhluwe Farm; b. S. durbanica (Hampson, 1910), comb. nov., male, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; c. S. durbanica (Hampson, 1910), comb. nov., female, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; d. S. krooni sp. nov., holotype, male, Republic of South Africa, Province Eastern Cape, Port St. Johns; e. S. wichgrafi (Gruenberg, 1910), comb. nov., " Type ", male, Republic of South Africa, Province Gauteng, Pretoria or Johannesburg; f. S. nigeriaensis sp. nov., holotype, female, Nigeria, locality unknown, probably collected at the coast as " 1 m " on the label might represent the altitude." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845633" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Figs 3d</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. A. Shimbania durbanica (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov., male, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Stanger, with a well visible broad transtilla (a); B. S. krooni sp. nov., holotype, male, Republic of South Africa, Province Eastern Cape, Port St. Johns; C. S. durbanica (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov., female, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, including one fungus (b) in the thinly membranous corpus bursae, the thinly membranous ductus bursae (c) is among the longest in Metarbelidae." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845640" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">, 10B</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1973-01-09" collectorName="D. M. Kroon, I. Lehmann" country="Republic of South Africa" location="Port St. Johns" municipality="Male" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Eastern Cape">
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<collectingMunicipality>Male</collectingMunicipality>
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, [
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<collectingCountry name="South Africa">Republic of South Africa</collectingCountry>
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], [Province
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<collectingRegion country="South Africa" name="Eastern Cape">Eastern Cape</collectingRegion>
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],
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:EA11E52D95F15984ACF18D00E2824C07:8B7C37B418BBC4F898FCDDDB3EA13DFB" country="Republic of South Africa" municipality="Male" name="Port St. Johns" stateProvince="Eastern Cape">Port St. Johns</location>
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,
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<collectingDate value="1973-01-09">09. January 1973</collectingDate>
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,
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<collectorName>D.M. Kroon</collectorName>
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[leg.], "Brit. Mus. 1975-587", genitalia slide number 07/022009
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<collectorName>I. Lehmann</collectorName>
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(BMNH)
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Description.</paragraph>
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: entirely olive-brown with a light lilac glint; eyes olive-brown with black patches and surrounded by long hair-like scales of olive-brown with a light lilac glint; a pair of rudimentary pits is present on lower fronto-clypeus, a pair of projections is present and well visible on lower fronto-clypeus; pits behind labial palpi are extremely small slits; antenna short, 0.35 length of forewing, bipectinate, branches short, 3.0
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width of shaft, not scaled, all branches are widely separated at base, 2.0
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width of branch; shaft covered with ivory-yellow scales dorsally; labial palpi long, slightly longer than half of eye-diameter, olive-brown.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Thorax</emphasis>
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: Patagia olive-brown, forming a collar ring, scales without light grey tips; tegulae with long hair-like dark chestnut scales with a light lilac-golden glint. Metathorax with scale-crest of olive-brown with a small patch of dark chestnut at center. Hind legs olive-brown with fine hair-like scales with light grey tips, on lower part of tarsus deep olive-buff dorsally; two pairs of tibial spurs of unequal width and length, upper pair broad,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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1.4 mm and 1.0 mm long, lower pair narrow,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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1.1 mm and 0.9 mm long. Forewing length 21.5 mm and wingspan is 48.5 mm. Forewing upperside unusually dark, with dark chestnut mixed with citrine-drab on inner half of wing, outer half dark olive-buff with a light golden glint towards termen, costal margin distinctly marked greyish-olive; only below first one-third of 1A+2A a dark chestnut patch; veins not distinctly marked including CuA2; the only pattern on forewing is a very weak (difficult to see) dark olive subterminal patch, nearly
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<normalizedToken originalValue="“Y”">"Y"</normalizedToken>
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-shaped, narrowly oval, from R3 to near end of CuA1 and hence, with a short stalk, and a weak line almost parallel to termen from near apex to end of CuA1; the termen is without lunules; cilia short, 1.0 mm, olive-brown with a glint. Underside of forewing is dark olive-buff with a golden glint. Hindwing upperside is dark olive-buff with a light golden glint; cilia as in forewing; underside as in forewing.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Dark olive-buff with hair-like scales with a light golden glint; abdominal tuft with hair-like scales of dark olive-buff, long, 1/3 length of abdomen. Genitalia with short and narrow uncus, 60% of length of whole gnathos, narrow graben-like surface ventrally is present. Gnathos has gnathos arms that are large, one arm 50% the size of valva; upper part of the gnathos arm is a long band that is as long as 50% of basal width of valva, the lower part of the gnathal arm does not touch the other arm, it is of broad triangular shape with a pronounced thorn-like structure and with its base 80% of the basal width of valva, but a strongly serrate dorsal edge as well as short thorn-like structures are absent; the gnathal arms are connected ventrally by a very narrow sclerotized band that is only as broad as 15% of the transtilla and is widely bifurcated at the middle. The Gnathos arms end above the dorsal edge of the transtilla. The valva is elongated, broadly triangular with a long dorsal edge of 2.4
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the length of uncus, ventral edge of valva oblique, only slightly bent inwards at 2/3 of ventral edge, with a tip that is narrowly rounded; sacculus not pronounced, narrow, weakly sclerotized, short, 40% of length of ventral edge of valva; juxta well developed, with two broad rectangular lobes and a narrowly V-shaped emargination in between the lobes, it is 50% the length of juxta, dorsal edge of lobes straight. Phallus large, as broad as 40% of basal width of valva and 20% longer than costal width of valva, bent upwards at tip distally, vesica without cornuti.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania krooni</emphasis>
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sp. nov. is the largest species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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in the Republic of South Africa and is among the darkest coloured species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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with almost no pattern on forewings. Veins R1+R2 originating from one of the longest stalks among
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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, the stalk has the length of 60% of R3. Two unique characters occur in the genitalia, namely a short uncus (the dorsal edge of valva is 2.4
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the length of uncus) and a juxta with broadly rectangular lobes. If compared to the other three species presented here from the Republic of South Africa the uncus is also the broadest. The very narrow upper half of vinculum and its narrow ventral part is only similar to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
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. The differences are a thickening on the ventral part of the uncus and a very broad rounded distal edge of an rectangular and elongated valva, both present in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
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, but absent in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. krooni</emphasis>
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sp. nov.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania krooni</emphasis>
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sp. nov. is only known from an area in Port St. Johns (altitude 5-210 m), located at the coastline of the Indian Ocean up to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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1.5 km further inland. The habitats belong to the "Transkei Coastal Belt"
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Mucina, L" editor="Mucina, L" journalOrPublisher="South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" pagination="568 - 583" refId="B80" refString="Mucina, L, Scott-Shaw, CR, Rutherford, MC, Camp, KGT, Matthews, WS, Powrie, LW, Hoare, DB, 2006b. Indian Ocean Coastal Belt. In: Mucina, L, Rutherford, MC, Eds., The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19: 568 - 583" title="Indian Ocean Coastal Belt." volumeTitle="The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland." year="2006 b">Mucina et al. (2006b)</bibRefCitation>
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(Indian Ocean Coastal Belt Biome). One of the characters of this coastal belt is its highly dissected landscape with alternating hills and steep slopes. The habitats comprise grasslands with subtropical thicket clumps and scattered patches of "Scarp Forest"
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Mucina, L" editor="Mucina, L" journalOrPublisher="Strelitzia" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" pagination="484 - 614" refId="B77" refString="Mucina, L, Geldenhuys, CJ, 2006. Afrotemperate, Subtropical and Azonal Forests. In: Mucina, L, Rutherford, MC, Eds., The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19: 484 - 614" title="Afrotemperate, Subtropical and Azonal Forests." volume="19" volumeTitle="The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria." year="2006">Mucina and Geldenhuys (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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dominated by,
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e.g. Buxus
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Hutch. (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Heywoodia lucens</emphasis>
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Sim (
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),
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Sapotaceae" genus="Englerophytum" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Englerophytum natalense" order="Ericales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="natalense">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Englerophytum natalense</emphasis>
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T.D. Penn. (
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) and mixed with,
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e.g.
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grandis
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Skeels (
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) and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Albizia suluensis</emphasis>
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Gerstner (
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Leguminosae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mimosoideae">Mimosoideae</taxonomicName>
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). Based on its distribution,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="S. krooni" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="krooni">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. krooni</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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sp. nov. can be classified as a lowland species that is most probably endemic to the scattered Scarp forests as part of the "Tongaland-Pondoland regional mosaic"
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="White, F" journalOrPublisher="Unesco, Paris" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" refId="B104" refString="White, F, 1983. The Vegetation of Africa: a Descriptive Memoir to Accompany the Unesco/AETFAT/UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa. Natural Resources Research no. XX. Unesco, Paris" title="The Vegetation of Africa: a Descriptive Memoir to Accompany the Unesco / AETFAT / UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa. Natural Resources Research no. XX." year="1983">White (1983)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="133" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">
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The species is named in memory for the South African Lepidopterist, the late Dr. Douglas Mervyn Kroon (born in 1940, died on 02nd August 2020), who not only collected the holotype, but helped I.L. significantly on research as well as publications on Kenyan
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Strand" authorityYear="1909" class="Insecta" family="Metarbelidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Metarbelidae</taxonomicName>
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in the years 1999-2010.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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