Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965

László, Gyula M., 2022, Review of theAfrotropical Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) with description of a new genus and a new species, Zootaxa 5124 (3), pp. 359-374 : 371

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.3.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6410998

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scientific name

Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965
status

 

Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965 View in CoL

( Figs 13 View Figures 9–14 , 26 View Figures 26–29 )

Aethiopsestis echinata Watson, 1965 View in CoL . Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 27(2): 263. Type locality: [ Zimbabwe] S. Rhodesia, Salisbury. Holotype, ♂, in coll. NHMUK.

Watson, A. (1965) Aethiopsestis gen. nov. (Lepidoptera), first record of Thyatiridae from the Ethiopian Region. Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa, 27 (2), 257 - 266.

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Figures 9–14: adults (all ©NHMUK). 9, Aethiopsestis austrina, holotype, ♂, Zimbabwe; 10, Ibidem, paratype, ♀, Zimbabwe; 11, A. nebulosa, holotype, ♂, RSA; 12, Ibidem, ♀, RSA; 13, A. echinata, holotype, ♂, Zimbabwe; 14, A. mufindiae, holotype, ♂, Tanzania.

Gallery Image

Figures 26–29. Male genitalia. 26, Aethiopsestis echinata, holotype, gen. slide No. BM Thyatiridae 2 (©NHMUK); 27, A. mufindiae, holotype, gen. slide No. BM Thyatiridae 40 (©NHMUK); 28, Ibidem, gen. slide No. LG 5626 (ANHRT); 29, Ibidem, gen. slide No. LG 5627 (ANHRT).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Drepanidae

SubFamily

Thyatirinae

Tribe

Polyplocini

Genus

Aethiopsestis