Sonitha lila Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010

Tejuoso, Olanrewaju, Friend, Herman L., Prozorov, Alexey M., Yakovlev, Roman V., Saldaitis, Aidas, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Sulak, Harald, Volkova, Julia S., Murphy, Raymond J., Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C., 2024, Sonitha adetoun - a new species from the Congolian lowland forests (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Gastropachini), Ecologica Montenegrina 72, pp. 71-80 : 73-75

Sonitha lila Zolotuhin & Prozorov, 2010

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New records: ♂, Angola, Cuanza Sul Province, 26 km E Cassongue , 11.870950 S, 15.1553 E, 1630 m, 28.III.2014, leg. H. Sulak, S. Naumann & E. Ott, GS 1417 ( CGM / USTTB) ; 2♂, Tanzania, Kigoma Region, Kasulu District , 10 km SE Rungwe, 20.I.1990, leg. Bjørnstadt ( NHMO) ; ♂, Tanzania, Kigoma Region, Kasulu District , 11 km S Malagarasi Bridge, 19.X.1990, leg. Bjørnstadt ( NHMO) ; ♂, Tanzania, Kigoma Region, Kigoma District, 5 km N Basanza , 5.I.1990, leg. Bjørnstadt ( NHMO) ; ♀, Tanzania, Kigoma Region, Kigoma District, Tubira Forest , 21.VII.1989, leg. Bjørnstadt, GS 2012-019 ( NHMO) ; ♀, Malawi, Mzuzu, Nkhorongo , 11.383 S, 33.983 E, 1375 m, 28.XI.2013, leg. R. J. Murphy ( CGM / USTTB) . Altogether 8♂ and 5♀ are known to us, including one ♂ mislabeled as “ Mad. [agascar], La Mandrake” ( RMCA) .

Distribution ( Fig. 10 ). Angolan montane forest-grassland in Angola (new record), northeast Congolian lowland forests in DRC, dry miombo woodlands in Zambia, and central Zambezian wet miombo woodlands in Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania (new record).

Biology. Adults were collected in I, III–IV, VII, IX–XI from altitudes up to 1938 meters a.s.l. Preimaginal stages remain unknown.

Figures

Figures 1–7. Adults of Sonitha spp. 1–3. S. lila. 1. ♂, Angola, 26 km E Cassongue, GS 1417 (CGM/USTTB). 2. ♀, Malawi, Mzuzu (CGM/USTTB). 3. ♀, Tanzania, Tubira Forest, GS 2012-019 (NHMO). 4–6. S. integra. 4. PT ♀, DRC, Lodja, GS LAS-027 (NHMUK). 5–6. ♂, DRC, Ekongo, GS 0999, 1018 (CGM/USTTB). 7. S. adetoun sp. n., HT ♂, DRC, Ekongo, GS 1000 (CGM/USTTB). Scale bar – 1 cm.

Figures 8–10. ♂ of Sonitha integra (8) and S. adetoun sp. n. (9) in nature, and map with collecting sites for Sonitha spp. (10).

Figures 11–13. ♂ genitalia of Sonitha spp. 11. S. lila, Angola, 26 km E Cassongue, GS 1417 (CGM/USTTB). 12. S. integra, DRC, Ekongo, GS 0999 (CGM/USTTB). 13. S. adetoun sp. n., HT, DRC, Ekongo, GS 1000 (CGM/USTBB). Scale bar – 1 mm.