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Issue: Vol. 4658 No. 3: 23 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.10
Page range: 591–598
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PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) from Uganda, with a checklist of the genus in the Afrotropical Region

Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB, 28644 Korea
The Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Abteilung für Sammlungen, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Africa checklist COI Furcalis taxonomy Lepidoptera

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 are described from Uganda, Africa: H. arcuatus sp. nov. and H. lactizonalis sp. nov. A previously known species of the genus from Uganda, H. hemigastra Meyrick, 1931 is transferred to the genus Furcalis Park as F. hemigastra (Meyrick, 1931), comb. nov. The female of F. hemigastra is reported for the first time and described and illustrated. New distributional data for H. lophophora Janse for DR Congo, Tanzania and Uganda are given, and a maximum likelihood-tree of the four COI barcoded species of Homaloxestis is provided to reconfirm the relationship of H. lophophora Janse and H. cholopis (Meyrick). Diagnosis, descriptions and illustrations of adults, male and/or female genitalia for the new species, and the venation of H. lactizonalis sp. nov. are provided. A checklist of the species of the genus Homaloxestis Meyrick in the Afrotropical region is given.

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