Open AccessA new species of the genus Amerila Walker, 1855 from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Amerilini)
Author(s) -
Nikolai Ignatev,
Gyula M. László,
Zdeněk Faltýnek Fric,
Łukasz Przybyłowicz
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ecologica montenegrina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2337-0173
pISSN - 2336-9744
DOI - 10.37828/em.2022.52.1
Subject(s) - erebidae , lepidoptera genitalia , biology , tanzania , male genitalia , rothschild , genus , zoology , habitus , taxonomy (biology) , ecology , geography , ethnology , history , archaeology , ethnography
In this paper, we describe a new species, Amerila francesae Ignatev & László, sp. n., from Tanzania, East Africa. Considering the distinctive characters of external and genital morphology corroborated by genetic data retrieved from mitochondrial COI-5P gene, we assign this new species and A. mulleri Häuser & Boppré, 1997 with the Amerila magnifica Rothschild, 1910 species complex. We illustrate the habitus, the male and female genitalia, the distribution of the new species and its closest allies.