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On the identity and status of
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFD8D8F626828FE1E" bold="true" box="[613,840,360,393]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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(
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<paragraph id="8BAB36BBFFB1110EFF7F8FB36A07FE47" blockId="0.[151,1308,441,496]" box="[151,359,441,464]" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">WILLY DE PRINS</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFF7F8FD16E7CFE67" box="[151,1308,475,496]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Uautierstraat 29, 1000
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,
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. E-mail: willy.deprins@gmail.com
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In 1862, F. Walker described
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFE278C326910FDC7" box="[463,624,568,592]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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in the family
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(now
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, subfamily
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) on a single female (he stated that it is a male but see
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: 209) from
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EF854B4AFFB1110EFC0D8C566FCBFDE4" author="Walker" box="[997,1195,604,627]" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" refString="Walker, F. (1862) Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. Transactions of the entomological Society of London, Series 3, 1, 70 - 128. Available from: http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32121024 (accessed 10 August 2017)" type="journal article" year="1862">Walker 1862: 269</bibRefCitation>
). The genus
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is now considered a synonym of the large genus
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which belongs to the
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, a family entirely confined to the Australian region with representatives in
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and New
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EF854B4AFFB1110EFC778CAB6F8CFD2F" author="Edwards" box="[927,1260,673,696]" pageId="0" pageNumber="163" refString="Edwards, E. D. &amp; Fairey, K. D. (1996) Anthelidae. In: Nielsen, E. S., Edwards, E. D. &amp; Rangsi, T. V. (Eds.), Checklist of the Lepidopera of Australia. Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera, 4, pp. 258 - 260." type="journal article" year="1996">Edwards &amp; Fairey 1996: 258</bibRefCitation>
). These authors mention 61
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFEFE8CC96A09FD4C" box="[278,361,707,731]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Anthela</emphasis>
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species with about the same amount of synonymic species-group names, but they do not cite
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFAA78CC96B84FD6A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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, already indicating that this species does not belong to the Australian fauna and hence that the indication of “
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” in the original description, and repeated in Walker (1865: 369), is erroneous.
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states: “49.
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFDFB8D2169D3FCD4" box="[531,691,811,835]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
Wlk., Trans. Ent. Soc.
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, (3), i., 1862, p. 269. I have seen the
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in the Oxford Museum. It has been removed to the
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and bares an MS. label “Not
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but Delagoa Bay.” I do not doubt that it is not Australian.” The card in the online catalogue of LepIndex (
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Beccaloni
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. 2005
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) contains, apart from the usual reference to the original description, an indication on the back side stating that same text in the handwriting of A. J. Turner.
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After that date,
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFE848DD2696DFC67" box="[364,525,984,1008]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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has not been mentioned in the entomological literature anymore, as far as I have been able to ascertain. It is e.g. omitted in the treatment of the Afrotropical
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by
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and in the checklist of
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of southern Africa by
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Vári
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. (2002)
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.
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Fortunately, the female
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is still in good condition and preserved at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) (
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, see also www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collections/irn/ca2002). The excellent website of a.o. the
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deposited in that museum does not merely give good pictures of the upper and underside of the specimen, but also of its 6 labels. The original locality label &quot;Del. B.&quot; was added by W.W. Saunders, the handwritten label &quot;
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&quot; was added by F. Walker (J. Hogan, pers. comm.). Later on, during the preparation of his catalogue of the Australian
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specimens in the OUMNH, Swinhoe added three labels on a slightly more whitish paper: a larger square handwritten label “A Walkers
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…” [recognizing that it is indeed the
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on which Walker based his description in 1862, the numbers “32 369” refer to Walkers publication in 1865], a small printed label “982” [indicating the number in his catalogue], and a small handwritten label “Austral.” [repeating the erroneous
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locality “
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” mentioned in the original description] (J. Hogan, pers. comm.). The large rectangular label was added subsequently by the curators of the
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collection at the OUMNH. Neither
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, 1865) nor
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paid enough attention to the small label “Del. B.”, which is obviously the short for “Delagoa Bay”, as noticed by
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, nowadays the
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Bay (Baía de
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) in southern
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.
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A comparison of the
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specimen of
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFD8088096869F98C" box="[616,777,1539,1563]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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with the other Afrotropical
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species (
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De Prins &amp; De Prins
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) soon revealed that it is conspecific with
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFD11882F6F45F9AA" box="[761,1061,1573,1597]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Marmaroplegma paragarda</emphasis>
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, described from
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. The male
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of that species is deposited in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (SNHM) (
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Fig.
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, see also http://www2.nrm.se/en/lep_nrm/p/
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_
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.html). I hereby formally transfer
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFF0788876AF0F932" box="[239,400,1677,1701]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Darala lineosa</emphasis>
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to the genus
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFDC8888769B4F932" box="[544,724,1677,1701]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Marmaroplegma</emphasis>
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(
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.) and synonymize it with
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<emphasis id="B960EAA9FFB1110EFB9888876EFCF932" box="[1136,1436,1677,1701]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="163">Marmaroplegma paragarda</emphasis>
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(
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).
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