Meyameta straminea ( Aurivillius, 1921 ) Prozorov & Volkova & Saldaitis & Prozorova & Sulak & Yakovlev & Traore & Revay & Müller, 2024

Prozorov, Alexey M., Volkova, Julia S., Saldaitis, Aidas, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Sulak, Harald, Yakovlev, Roman V., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C., 2024, A new genus Meyameta for South African “ Napta ” straminea and description of its sister species from Namibia (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 71, pp. 172-183 : 178

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2024.71.16

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E087E1-852F-FFE6-28A0-46238275FD1F

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scientific name

Meyameta straminea ( Aurivillius, 1921 )
status

comb. nov.

Meyameta straminea ( Aurivillius, 1921) View in CoL comb. n.

( Figs 5–8, 14–16 View Figures 2–14 View Figures 15–20 , 25 View Figure 25 )

Glocia straminea Aurivillius, 1921 View in CoL , Annals of the South African Museum, 18 (2), 237. Type specimens: series of ST (DMNH; SNHM).

= Pachymeta eborea Tams, 1924 View in CoL , the Entomologist, 57, 129. Type specimen: HT ♂ (DMNH).

Diagnosis. Comparing to M. roberti sp. n., M. straminea is overall bigger, has light-colored hindwings, and larger extensions of saccus.

Distribution ( Fig. 25 View Figure 25 ). Highveld grasslands, Nama Karoo shrublands, and Kalahari xeric savanna in RSA.

Biology. Adults were collected in January – March, September, October, and December from altitudes up to 1570 m. One larva, potentially of fourth or fifth stage, is known to us from the collection of SNHM ( Figs 13–14 View Figures 2–14 ). It is dark brown laterally and ventrally with yellow and white long lateral hairs, black dorsally with short orange and long black and white hairs.

Type material examined: ST ♂, [ RSA], GS 10965 ( SNHM) ; HT ♂ of Pachymeta eborea, Bloemfontein, III.1919 , leg. H. E. Irving ( DMNH) ; PT ♂ of Pachymeta eborea, Bloemfontein , 30.I.1919, leg. H. E. Irving, GS 458 ( NHMUK) . Additional material examined. ♂, ♀, and larva, Bloemfontein , 17.XII.1921, 4.II.1922, 3.III.1926, leg. H. E. Irving ( SNHM) ; ♂, Northern Cape Province, Colesberg, farm Stockenstromskop, 30.59833 S, 25.40666 E, grassy Upper Karoo , 1240 m, 19.XII.2014, leg. H. S. Staude ( CGM / USTTB); 2♂ GoogleMaps , Northern Cape Province, Kalahari, 50 km E Hotazel, Tswalu NR, 27.30975 S, 22.47063 E, 1215 m, 21.II.2010, leg. D. Bartsch & J. Berg ( SMNS) GoogleMaps ; ♂, Northern Cape Province, 10 km N Kimberley, Dronfield NR, 28.61811 S, 24.80916 E, 1215 m, 10.II.2012, leg. D. Bartsch & J. Berg ( SMNS) GoogleMaps ; ♂, Northern Cape Province, 50 km W Kimberley, Rooipoort NR, 28.63733 S, 24.28008 E, 1200 m, 13.II.2012, leg. D. Bartsch & J. Berg ( SMNS) GoogleMaps ; ♂, ♀, Northern Cape Province, Vanderkloof, P. K. Le Roux Dam , 29.99166 S, 24.73158 E, 23–26.II.1970, leg. Potgieter & Snyman, GS Las-1, Las-3 ( DMNH) GoogleMaps ; ♂, Eastern Cape Province, Steynsburg , 31.29274 S, 25.8288 E, 3–10.II.1965, leg. R. J. Southey, GS Las-2 ( DMNH) GoogleMaps . Other specimens from DMNH were collected near Bloemfontein, Thabanchu, Zastron , Steynsburg , and Vanderkloof ; more locations are known from the database of the late John G. Joannou whose collection was moved to DMHN, here they are : Northern Cape Province, Williston, Kareeboom Farm , 30.85 S, 21.43 E, 20.X.2001, leg. H. S. Staude GoogleMaps ; Northern Cape Province, Griquatown, Dandyslaagte Farm , 28.7383 S, 23.10805 E, 1380 m, 15.XII.2007, leg. H. S. Staude GoogleMaps ; Northern Cape Province, Olifhantshoek, Langeberge , 27.84205 S, 22.68138 E, 1570 m, 24.I.2009, leg. H. S. Staude GoogleMaps ; Northern Cape Province, Olifhantshoek, Langeberge , 27.94638 S, 22.73086 E, 1320 m, vegetation GoogleMaps type Koranna-Langeberg Mountain Bushveld (SVk15), 28.IX.2011, leg. H. S. Staude ; Eastern Cape Province, Oviston, Gariep Dam , 30.6 S, 25.5 E, 1250 m, 16.XII.2001, leg. H. S. Staude GoogleMaps ; Eastern Cape Province, Nieu Bethesda , 31.85 S, 24.55 E, 1500 m, 17.XII.2001, leg. H. S. Staude GoogleMaps ; Free State Province, Winburg, Bells Pass , 28.535778 S, 25.959667 E, 80 m, 5.II.2006, leg. H. S. Staude. GoogleMaps

SNHM

Sudan Natural History Museum

DMNH

Delaware Museum of Natural History

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

SMNS

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lasiocampidae

Genus

Meyameta

Loc

Meyameta straminea ( Aurivillius, 1921 )

Prozorov, Alexey M., Volkova, Julia S., Saldaitis, Aidas, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Sulak, Harald, Yakovlev, Roman V., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C. 2024
2024
Loc

Pachymeta eborea

Tams 1924
1924
Loc

Glocia straminea

Aurivillius 1921
1921
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