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Issue: Vol. 5343 No. 5: 12 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.5.4
Page range: 489-500
Abstract views: 249
PDF downloaded: 23

New species and new country distribution records of Athrips (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from the Afrotropical region

Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; 37 Academician Lebediev str.; 03143; Kyiv; Ukraine
Natural History Museum; University of Oslo; P.O. Box 1172 Blindern; NO-0318 Oslo; Norway
Natural History Museum; Department of Life Sciences; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; U.K.
Lepidoptera Kenya Namibia South Africa Tanzania systematics

Abstract

Athrips nigribasella sp. nov., A. dorsochrella sp. nov., A. macrosignella sp. nov. and A. spinosum sp. nov., are described from Kenya, and A. asymmetrica sp. nov. is described from South Africa. The genus Parapsectris Meyrick, 1911, syn. nov., is synonymized with Athrips Billberg, 1820. Athrips sisterina (Povolný, 1989) is recorded for the first time from Kenya, Athrips savannae (Bidzilya, 2010), comb. nov. and A. ochrocosma (Meyrick, 1911) from Tanzania. Adults and genitalia of all newly described species are illustrated. The diagnoses of A. sisterina and A. bruneosparsa (Janse, 1958) are updated with descriptions and illustrations of details of male and female genitalia.

 

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