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Issue: Vol. 4442 No. 2: 2 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.2.6
Page range: 293–306
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 4

On the taxonomy of the genus Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 with description of two new species from Mozambique (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)

tai State University, Lenina str. 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia; Tomsk State University, Institute of Biology, Ecology, Soil Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia.
The African Natural History Research Trust (ANHRT), Street Court Leominster-Kingsland, HR6 9QA, United Kingdom.
Lithosiini Nudariina Tumicla new combination checklist Mozambique Afrotropical Lepidoptera

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the Afrotropical genus Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 and the updated checklist of all currently known species of this genus belonging to the tribe Lithosiini. We propose 18 new combinations: Tumicla atricraspeda (Hampson, 1914), comb. nov., T. calimerae (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. congoensis (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. dimidiata (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. distyi (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. doa (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. eala (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. fasciata (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. gigantea (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. hermanni (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. mutabilis (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., T. retromaculata (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. rosea (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. rubea (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. russula (Kiriakoff, 1963), comb. nov., T. similis (Durante, 2008), comb. nov., T. spinata (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov., and T. versicolor (Kühne, 2007), comb. nov. Two new species of Tumicla, T. tsonga sp. nov. and T. arktos sp. nov. are described from southern Mozambique.

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