Homadaula ravula Mey, 2004

Mey, Wolfram, 2022, Unexpected diversity: ten new species of Homadaula Lower, 1899 from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Galacticoidea: Galacticidae), Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 21-33 : 23

Homadaula ravula Mey, 2004

Material: 1 ♂, Namibia, Okahandja, 50 km north, Farm Erichsfelde , BIOTA observatory, 10–11.i.2007, leg. W. Mey, ( MfN) ; 1 ♀, Namibia, Hoanib River , Khowareb, LF, 2.ii.2009, leg. W. Mey ( MfN) ; 1 ♂ 2 ♀, Zimbabwe, Manicaland, Bvumba , 1360 m, 19°03′33′′S 32°42′41′′E, 3– 5.xi.2016, genitalia slides Mey 43/21, leg. D. Agassiz & K. Larsen (coll. Agassiz, MfN) ; Malawi, 1 ♀, Mt. Mulanje, 1000 m, 9.xii.2002, leg. D. Agassiz, (coll. Agassiz) ; 1 ♂, Kenya, Eastern, Hunters Lodge , 930 m, 2°12′48′′S 37°42′52′′E, 24.xi.2010, leg. D. Agassiz & M. Ngugi ; 1 ♀, same locality, 15.xi.2012, leg. D. Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford (coll. Agassiz) ; 1 ♂, Kenya, Rift Valley, Lake Baringo, 3000 ft., 18.x.1998 ; 1 ♂ 2 ♀, same locality, 23.i.1999, leg. D. Agassiz , ♂ genitalia slide DJLA 1347 (coll. Agassiz); 3 ♀, same locality, 14.xi.2005, 16.xi.2006, 4.v.2015, leg. D. Agassiz (coll. Agassiz) ; 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Kenya, Rift Valley, Marigat , 1000 m, 0°28′N 35°58′E, l. Acacia tortilis , em[erged]. 18.viii.2007, leg. D. Agassiz, genitalia in glycerol vial (coll. Agassiz) ; 1 ♂, Ethiopia, Region Oromia, road Bedele-Metu , 9 km NO Yayo, 8°22′12.42′′N 35°53′41.08′′E, 1425 m, 13.v.2015, leg. D. Stadie & S. Fiebig, genitalia in glycerol vial ( MfN) .

Biology: In the Rift Valley of Kenya, the species was bred from Vachellia tortilis .

Remarks: H. ravula is widely distributed in Africa. This is the first record of the species and of the family from Ethiopia (see Tujuba et al. 2019).