Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940

Delabye, Sylvain, Gaona, Fernando P, Potocky, Pavel, Foxcroft, Llewellyn C, Halamova, Pavla, Hejda, Martin, MacFadyen, Sandra, Pyskova, Klara, Sedlacek, Ondrej, Stankova, Marketa, Storch, David, Pysek, Petr & Tropek, Robert, 2022, Thirteen moth species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Noctuidae) newly recorded in South Africa, with comments on their distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 89729-89729 : 89729

Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940

Noctuidae , Eustrotiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940; Location: country: South Africa; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Redrocks waterhole; verbatimElevation: 328 m; decimalLatitude: -23.172717; decimalLongitude: 31.299895; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 24/02/2020; habitat: Perennial river ; open savanna grassland with stunted mopane; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940; Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Mpumalanga; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, N'wanetzi river, road S100, 2 km W of Nsasane waterhole; verbatimElevation: 228 m; decimalLatitude: -24.381219; decimalLongitude: 31.886093; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 14/11/2018; habitat: Seasonal river ; rugged veld: mixed thornveld and woodland savanna; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940; Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Tsendze river, 2 km SE of Frazerus waterhole; verbatimElevation: 352 m; decimalLatitude: -23.495737; decimalLongitude: 31.325834; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 28/02/2020; habitat: Seasonal river ; mopani dominated woodland savanna on granite: Acacia , Bushwillow and Mopane ; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940; Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Mpumalanga; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, N'waswitsontso river, road S125, 1 km NW of Mhisanamond waterhole; verbatimElevation: 329 m; decimalLatitude: -24.600415; decimalLongitude: 31.687177; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 16/11/2018; habitat: Perennial river ; mixed thorn and Marula woodland savanna on granite: Bushwillow , Acacia and Marula ; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940; Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Mpumalanga; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Road H 1-3, 500m W of Marheya waterhole; verbatimElevation: 333 m; decimalLatitude: -24.565596; decimalLongitude: 31.774760; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 01/03/2019; habitat: Crest; wooded savanna on shale: Bushwillow, Leadwood, Marula, Knobthorn trees, and thorn thickets; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

The identification was based on Hacker (2016).

Distribution

We report this species for the first time in South Africa. It was known from several countries in equatorial Africa (including Tanzania in the Zambezian biogeographic region) and Madagascar ( Hacker 2016, De Prins and De Prins 2022). Therefore, the reported distribution in KNP extended the species’ known distribution on the continent for over 1,000 km southwards (Fig. 9 ).

Figures

Figure 9. Ozarba exoplaga Berio, 1940, South Africa, Kruger National Park; A male; B male genitalia. The scale represents 5 mm.