A new species of the genus Amerila Walker, 1855 from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Amerilini) | Zendy

Nikolai Ignatev | Zendy; Gyula M. László | Zendy; Zděnek Faltýnek Fric | Zendy; Łukasz Przybyłowicz | Zendy

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A new species of the genus Amerila Walker, 1855 from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Amerilini)

Author(s) -

Nikolai Ignatev,

Gyula M. László,

Zděnek 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.

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