Daphaenisca inexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016)

Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Potocky, Pavel, Mertens, Jan E. J., Przybylowicz, Lukasz, Murkwe, Mercy, Kobe, Ishmeal N., Fokam, Eric B., Janecek, Stepan & Tropek, Robert, 2020, First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 50543-50543 : 50543

Daphaenisca inexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016)

Erebidae , Arctiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 14; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 16/12/2014; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 26; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/04/2015; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 9; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 08/02/2016; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 28/11/2014; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 15/04/2015; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Daphaeniscainexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 09/02/2016; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was recently described from Gabon and considered as endemic to the country. Our record extended its known distribution to Cameroon, as well as to the Guinean biogeographic region. On Mount Cameroon, our records came from lowland forests only (350 and 650 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 7 ).

Notes

The species was originally described as Balacra (Daphaenisca) inexpectata Durante & Zangrilli, 2016. The subgenus was formally raised to genus in Przybyłowicz et al. (2019a), based on the molecular and morphological evidence. In De Prins and De Prins (2019), the junior synonym has still been listed.

Figures

Figure 7. Daphaenisca inexpectata (Durante & Zangrilli, 2016). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.