Cabralis zambeziensis Bakkes, 2017

Bakkes, Deon K., Sole, Catherine L. & Mansell, Mervyn W., 2017, Revision of Afrotropical Silky Lacewings (Neuroptera: Psychopsidae), Zootaxa 4362 (2), pp. 151-212 : 168-171

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6053341

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EBD360-333D-7C11-F3D5-BD68FE16EEFE

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scientific name

Cabralis zambeziensis Bakkes
status

sp. nov.

Cabralis zambeziensis Bakkes View in CoL n. sp.

( Figs. 27 View FIGURE 27 –36)

Cabralis gloriosus Navás, 1912a:110 View in CoL (547), pro parte. Type depository: SANC. Holotype: male.

Type locality: Mwinilunga , Zambia (11°45’S 24°25’E). GoogleMaps

Etymology. From the type locality at the source of the Zambezi river, noun in apposition.

Material examined: 7 specimens from Zambia, DRC ( JBBC, MRAC, SANC). See table 1.

Type material. Holotype: Database no.: NEUR52669; ♂ ( SANC). Label data: ‘ Zambia / 20km.N. of / Mwinilunga / 11.45S, 24.25E. / 29.x.2006 / A. Gardiner’ (White rectangle). ‘ Holotype / Cabralis zambezi- / ensis Bakkes / D.K. Bakkes 2015’ (Large red rectangle). ‘SANC-Pretoria / Database No. / NEUR52669 ’ (Small blue rectangle). Abdomen cleared by Bakkes in 2014, placed in a glycerine-filled microvial pinned below specimen. GoogleMaps

Paratypes: Database no.: NEUR10109; 1♀ ( JBBC). Label data: ‘ ZAMBIA, Chiwoma / 12.20S 24.14E / 6.xi.2004 / S. Collins’ (White rectangle). ‘ Paratype / Cabralis zambezi- / ensis Bakkes / D.K. Bakkes 2015’ (Large blue rectangle). ‘SANC-Pretoria / Database No. / NEUR10109 ’ (Small blue rectangle). GoogleMaps

Database no.: NEUR52670; 1♀ (JBBC), 1♀ ( MRAC). Label data: ‘ Zambia / Ndola / 12.58S, 28.37E. / 31.x.2006 / A. Gardiner’ (White rectangle). ‘ Paratype / Cabralis zambezi- / ensis Bakkes / D.K. Bakkes 2015’ (Large blue rectangle). ‘SANC-Pretoria / Database No. / NEUR52670 ’ (Small blue rectangle). GoogleMaps

Database no.: NEUR52671; 1♀ ( JBBC). Label data: ‘ Zambia / nr. Munkuntna / 12.43.184S / 27.42.38.2E. / 11.xi.2006 / A. Gardiner’ (White rectangle). ‘ Paratype / Cabralis zambezi- / ensis Bakkes / D.K. Bakkes 2015’ (Large blue rectangle). ‘SANC-Pretoria / Database No. / NEUR52671 ’ (Small blue rectangle).

Diagnosis. This species may be distinguished by (1) pronotal pattern of anteriorly-directed white trident shape with black spot on middle stripe ( Fig. 28 View FIGURE 28 ), (2) male mediuncus thick curved with undulating margin in lateral view (Fig. 30).

Description. ♂ Length body 10–13mm, forewing 17–20mm, hind wing 15–18mm.

♀ Length body 12–14mm, forewing 19–21.5mm, hind wing 17–19.5mm.

Head with dark yellow hue ( Fig. 28 View FIGURE 28 ). Thorax with pronotum dark brownish with anteriorly-directed white trident-like pattern comprising middle stripe and two shorter stripes laterally, middle stripe bearing black spot midway, small ( Fig. 28 View FIGURE 28 ). Wings. Forewing marked with varying number of spots, large and strongly accentuated, dark brownish and pale yellowish brown ( Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27 ).

Abdomen dark brown to blackish ( Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27 ). Male terminalia. Mediuncus strongly decurved, thick hooked shape with undulating margin in lateral view (Fig. 30), apex flattened, bearing setae, dorsal face also bearing setae. Female terminalia. Sternite VII posterior margin deeply depressed, emarginated medially, forming narrow, slender, oblique copulatory fovea in ventral view (Fig. 35); invagination posteriorly directed, hooked-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 36).

Distribution. Central Africa: DRC and northern Zambia ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ). Moist and dense forest habitats.

PLATE V: FIGURES 29–32. Cabralis zambeziensis n. sp., holotype, male, Mwinilunga, Zambia, Database no.: NEUR52669. 29. Apex of abdomen, lateral. 30. Genitalia, lateral. 31. Apex of abdomen, ventral. 32. Genitalia, dorsal. Abbreviations: 6 – 9 = tergites 6 – 9, VI – IX = sternites 6 – 9, 9gcx = 9th gonocoxite, cc = cercal callus, ect = ectoprocts, gs = gonarcus, med = mediuncus, spp = superprocessus.

MRAC

Mus�e Royal de l�Afrique Centrale

SANC

Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Psychopsidae

Genus

Cabralis

Loc

Cabralis zambeziensis Bakkes

Bakkes, Deon K., Sole, Catherine L. & Mansell, Mervyn W. 2017
2017
Loc

Cabralis gloriosus Navás, 1912a:110

Navas 1912: 110
1912
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