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Issue: Vol. 5555 No. 2: 18 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.2.5
Page range: 253-268
Abstract views: 130
PDF downloaded: 7

Five new species in the Afrotropical genus Gnathodes Whalley (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae, Siculodinae) with the description of the female of Gnathodes fiscinella Whalley

African Natural History Research Trust; Street Court; Kingsland; Leominster; HR6 9QA; United Kingdom
Lepidoptera Afrotropics new distribution record taxonomy

Abstract

An examination of the Thyrididae material housed in the collections of the African Natural History Research Trust (ANHRT) has resulted in the discovery of five new species of Gnathodes Whalley, 1971 which are described in this paper: Gnathodes parallela sp. nov. (Cameroon), G. pallida sp. nov. (Liberia), G. ndoki sp. nov. (Republic of Congo), G. smithi sp. nov. (Liberia) and G. whalleyi sp. nov. (Liberia). The hitherto unknown female of G. fiscinella Whalley, 1971 is also illustrated and its genitalia described here for the first time.

 

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