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Issue: Vol. 4559 No. 2: 20 Feb. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.7
Page range: 339–348
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 1

Further information on Lolibaia Gorbunov & Gurko, 2017 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Synanthedonini) with description of three new species from tropical Africa

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart.
African Natural History Research Trust, Street Court, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 9QA, UK.
Lepidoptera Clearwing moth taxonomy South Sudan Kenya Zambia South Africa

Abstract

The knowledge of the clearwing moth genus Lolibaia Gorbunov & Gurko, 2017, recently described from South Sudan and until now known only from a single, damaged specimen, is extended by three new species from different parts of Africa including the as yet unknown female of the genus. L. jurateae sp. nov. is based on a single male from Kakamega Forest, Kenya; L. triangularis sp. nov. is based on six males from different localities in north-western Zambia, and L. polythyris sp. nov. is described from two females from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa.

 

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