Mimopacha tripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905)

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

Mimopacha tripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905)

Lasiocampidae , Lasiocampinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Crater Lake, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,450 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1443; decimalLongitude: 09.0717; Identification: identifiedBy: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 24/11/2016; habitat: Submontane forest locally disturbed by elephants; 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: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Elephant Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1453; decimalLongitude: 09.0870; Identification: identifiedBy: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 18/11/2014; habitat: Montane forest locally disturbed by elephants; 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: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Mapanja Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1157; decimalLongitude: 09.1315; Identification: identifiedBy: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 24/10/2017; habitat: Montane forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was known from the Guinean ( Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria) and Zambezian (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) biogeographic regions, with a large distribution gap in the Congolian biogeographic region. On Mount Cameroon, it was recorded in the submontane and montane forests between 1,450 and 1,850 m a.s.l. (Fig. 21 ).

Figures

Figure 21. Mimopacha tripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.