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Issue: Vol. 5369 No. 2: 9 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.2.2
Page range: 207-222
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A new genus of Afrotropical Lasiocampini: Revaya gen. n. (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae)

University of Sciences; Techniques and Technology of Bamako; BP 1805 Bamako; Mali
Karl Marx st. 41; RUS-432001 Ulyanovsk; Russia
Altai State University; pr. Lenina 61; RUS-656049 Barnaul; Russia. Tomsk State University; pr. Lenina 36; RUS-634050 Tomsk; Russia. Samarkand State University; University blv. 15; 140104 Samarkand; Uzbekistan.
Ulyanovsk State University; Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya Ulitsa; 1; RUS-432063 Ulyanovsk; Russia.
Nature Research Centre; Akademijos str. 2; 08412 Vilnius-21; Lithuania.
Museum Witt; Max-Reger-Str. 18; 92637 Weiden in der Oberpfalz; Germany.
University of Sciences; Techniques and Technology of Bamako; BP 1805 Bamako; Mali.
University of Sciences; Techniques and Technology of Bamako; BP 1805 Bamako; Mali. Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases; Hadassah Medical School; The Hebrew University; Kalman Ya’akov Man St.; 91120 Jerusalem; Israel.
Lepidoptera Africa Catalebeda lappet moths new record Oplometa Ptyssophlebia

Abstract

A new genus Revaya gen. n. with Revaya yahya sp. n. (type-species) and Revaya edita sp. n. are described. A detailed diagnosis for the new genus is provided and compared with three closely related genera: Catalebeda Aurivillius, 1902; Ptyssophlebia Berio, 1937; and Oplometa, Aurivillius 1894. Male genitalia of Oplometa cassandra (Druce, 1887) and female genitalia of Ptyssophlebia discocellularis (Strand, 1912) are illustrated for the first time. Catalebeda producta, P. discocellularis and O. cassandra are recorded for the first time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 

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