Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot 1993
| Main Authors: | Hausmann, Axel, Sciarretta, Andrea, Parisi, Francesco |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6084288 |
Daftar Isi:
- Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993 (Figs 13, 54) Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot (1993): 50. Locus typicus: Ethiopia (Choa, = Shewa/ Shoa), Debre Zeit, 1800 m (Holotype ♂ ZSM, examined and barcoded: BC ZSM Lep 69701 (658 bp), BC ZSM Lep 76115 (164 bp); gen.prp. ZSM G 19503 taken from paratype from type locality; all four paratypes at the ZSM are males with brushed tip of abdomen). Material. The type series (n= 5) from Debre Zeit (northern prov. Oromia) was examined at the ZSM. Redescription. Adult (Fig. 13). Wingspan. Male 24 – 30 mm. Ground colour leaf green, irrorated with white strigulae. Forewing without spot at the inner termen. On fore- and hindwing, terminal and discal dots absent. Hindwing termen round. Length of male palpi 1.0 – 1.2 times diameter of eye, tip and upperside reddish or darker ochre, underside white. Frons reddish. Antennae bipectinate in male. Antennal branches pale ochre. Male frenulum developed, weak. Male hindtibia with four spurs, without pencil. Male genitalia (Fig. 54). Uncus short. Short socii present. Valva broad, with a large subapical ventral membranous lobe. Sacculus sclerotized, towards tip curved, terminally round and spinulose. Dorsobasal margin of sacculus with stout thorny process. Aedeagus with a very narrow proximal stalk, length 2.1 mm, without cornuti, vesica weakly granulated. Sternum A 8 with two poorly sclerotized prominent lobes and deep invagination between. Genetic data. BIN: BOLD:ACL 5616. Nearest neighbour: P. n ere i s (3.0%; identic when excluding 3 rd position). At large genetic distance from subspecies yabellensis subsp. n. (7.9 %). Remarks. In male genitalia reminiscent of P. nandiensis, but harpe with a hook at its base.
- Published as part of Hausmann, Axel, Sciarretta, Andrea & Parisi, Francesco, 2016, The Geometrinae of Ethiopia II: Tribus Hemistolini, genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4065 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4065.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/270490