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Issue: Vol. 4114 No. 5: 26 May 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-05-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.8
Page range: 595–599
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 1

Geraldocossus gen. nov. (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) from Mount Cameroon (West Africa)

Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia.
Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of West Hungary. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky u. 4. 9400 Sopron, Hungary Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, CZ- 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Lepidoptera Cossidae West Africa

Abstract

The cossid or the Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) include about 1000 species worldwide (van Nieukerken et al., 2011), of which 750 species belong to five subfamilies that occur in the Old World (Yakovlev 2011). The Cossidae are still relatively poorly known from vast areas of the African continent, despite recent reports on the fauna of Malawi (Yakovlev & Murphey 2014), Zimbabwe (Yakovlev & Lenz 2014), and Zambia (Yakovlev 2014). The first results of an ongoing revision of the South African Cossidae have also been published (Mey 2015).

 

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