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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 4: 10 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.3
Page range: 445–457
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 1

Haplopacha (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) reviewed: four new species, first descriptions of the genitalia of both sexes, and unique alar scale organs

Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, Cromwell road, SW7 5BD London, UK
Natural History Museum Aarhus, Wilhelm Meyers Alle 210, Universitetsparken 8000 Aarhus C., Denmark
Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, Cromwell road, SW7 5BD London, UK
wing scales wing venation morphology Lepidoptera South Africa

Abstract

The collection of five specimens of Haplopacha at Ndumo Nature Reserve in South Africa highlights unknown species diversity in the monotypic genus. A total of four new species; H. riftensis sp. nov., H. tangani sp. nov., H. lunata sp. nov. and H. ndoumoi sp. nov., were identified in the Natural History Museum of London collection and the study of fresh specimens also revealed the presence of uniquely characteristic alar scale patches absent from the original species description of the genus type species H. cinerea. Based on the new species the descriptions of Haplopacha is amended. The identification of the new species was done using conventional light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy of the general morphology, wing venation and genitalia observations.

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