Adelpherupa pontica, Maes, 2002
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110061878 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4757272 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03858792-FFBB-FFC0-FE34-FE345A76C472 |
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treatment provided by |
Carolina |
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scientific name |
Adelpherupa pontica |
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sp. nov. |
Adelpherupa pontica sp.n.
(gures 1f, 2c, 3g, 4e)
Diagnosis. Black line on fore wing straight. Male genitalia with straight costa, ventral part of valva rounded. Zona glabra tympani with median sclerotization forming four short branches as in A. typicota but always one branch forming an angle of 90ss degrees with the longitudinal body axis.
Description. Ground colour reddish-brown or yellowish-brown. Black line on forewing straighter almost straight, usually clear. Two black spots clearly visible on forewing.
Male genitalia. Uncus curved, gnathos covered with minute spines; valva with costa straight and ventral part curved to the apex of the costa; aedeagus slightly bend; vesica with a single plate-like cornutus.
Female genitalia. Papillae anales with short and long setae, apophyses posteriores and anteriores of about equal length; ostium bursae, ductus bursae and corpus bursae membranous, antrum only slightly sclerotized.
Tympanal organs. Zona glabra tympani with for branches, rst left and right anterior branch on an angle of 90ss degrees with the longitudinal body axis.
Wing span. 22–31 mm.
Distribution. Cameroon, Congo ( DRC), Uganda.
Life cycle. Unknown.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: Cameroon Dschang 1400 m 23 October 1990 K. Maes, GPKM 776 ( ABSRC); 4 PARATYPES: 1: Cameroon Dschang , 1400 m 08 November 1990 K. Maes, GPKM 553; 1 , same locality, GPKM 554 ( ABSRC) ; 1: same locality 23 October 1990 ( ABSRC) ; 1: same locality 29 October 1990 ( ABSRC) .
Additional material examined. ( Congo, DRC) 1: Elisabethville 21 December 1949 C. H. Seydel, GPKM 14120 ( MRAC) ; 1 same locality, 26 December 1949, GPKM 14119 ( MRAC) ; 1: same locality 19 December 1949, GPKM 14126 ( MRAC) ; Uganda: 1: Uganda Ruwenzori Range , Ibanda 4700 ft 20–21 August 1952 D. S. Fletcher, Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20049 ( BMNH) ; 1: W.Uganda, Fort Portal , March 1959 R. H. Carcasson, GPKM 20106 ( NMK) ; 1: Masindi 30 April 1895 (Dr Ansorge), Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20896 ( BMNH) ; 1: Mahuba’s Kif. 1050 m 16 January 1925 A. J. T. Janse, Pyr.Brit.Mus. Slide No. 20050 ( BMNH) .
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