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Issue: Vol. 5588 No. 4: 18 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.4.4
Page range: 573-580
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Two new Clearwing moths from coastal Kenya (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Melittiini, Osminiini)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart; Rosenstein 1; 70191 Stuttgart.
Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. H-9945 Kercaszomor; Fő út 57. Hungary; Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre – Hungarian Natural History Museum; Department of Zoology; H-1088 Budapest; Baross utca 13; Hungary.
Lepidoptera Afrotropical Region Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Dakatcha Woodland Melittia Hübner [1819

Abstract

In this study, two new species of African Sesiidae are described from coastal Kenya. Melittia mida sp. nov. (Melittiini) from a series of eight males from Mida village at the edge of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, and Homogyna fenestra sp. nov. (Osminiini) from ten males collected across the Kenyan coast between the Dakatcha Woodland in the north and Diani beach in the south. Adults and male genitalia of both species are illustrated. Melittia mida sp. nov. is well characterized by the predominantly olive-brown body colour and the large transparent areas of the forewings. Homogyna fenestra sp. nov. differs from similar congeners by a transparent area distal to the forewing discal spot and by the completely transparent hindwings.

 

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