Ligulosia costimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910)

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

Ligulosia costimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910)

Erebidae , Arctiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 55; sex: 54 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; 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: 15; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/02/2017; 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: 15; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 26/04/2017; 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: 4; sex: 3 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 21/11/2014; 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: 32; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/02/2017; 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: 83; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); 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: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 23/04/2017; 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: 9; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Mann's Spring, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 2,200 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1428; decimalLongitude: 09.1225; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 08/11/2016; habitat: Montane forest close to the timberline; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 46; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Mann's Spring, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 2,200 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1428; decimalLongitude: 09.1225; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 01/02/2017; habitat: Montane forest close to the timberline; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 64; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ligulosiacostimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Mann's Spring, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 2,200 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1428; decimalLongitude: 09.1225; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 18/04/2017; habitat: Montane forest close to the timberline; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was reported from montane regions of Central (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Eastern (Kenya and Tanzania) Africa. Our record thus extended its known range to the Guinean biogeographic region. It was also the first record of Ligulosia genus in Cameroon. On Mount Cameroon, it has a relatively broad elevational distribution range (650-2,200 m a.s.l.), although most specimens were recorded at the higher elevations (Fig. 9 ).

Figures

Figure 9. Ligulosia costimaculata (Aurivillius, 1910). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.