Alonina pyrocraspis ( Hampson, 1910 ) Bartsch, Daniel, 2013

Bartsch, Daniel, 2013, Revisionary checklist of the Southern African Sesiini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) with description of new species, Zootaxa 3741 (1), pp. 1-54 : 10

Alonina pyrocraspis ( Hampson, 1910) new comb. ( Sciapteron )

Figs 19–20 , 92 , 110

Literature. Hampson 1910: 153 ( Sciapteron ); 1919: 58 ( Monopetalotaxis ); Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 8 ( Monopetalotaxis ); Gaede 1929: 520 ( Monopetalotaxis ); Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 42 ( Monopetalotaxis ); Vári, Kroon & Krüger 2002: 67 ( Monopetalotaxis ); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 45 ( Monopetalotaxis ).

Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂ ( Fig. 19 ), “ South Africa, Cape Colony, Cape Town, Rondebosch , Feb.1891, T.D. Butler leg.” ( BMNH).

Additional specimens: 1 ♂, Cape Prov. Langeberg, Tradouwpass , 4.Jan.1921, ex Brauns ; 1 ♂, Table Mountain , C.G.C. Dickson (gen. prep. Bartsch 2009 –25, Fig. 110 ) ( TMPS) ; 1 ♀ ( Fig. 20 ), Cape, Natures Valley , 16.Feb.1986 ; 1 ♀, Cape, Capusi forest , 2.Jan.1984 ; 1 ♂, Cape Province, Table Mountain northern slopes, 1350 ft., 23.Jan.1956 (antenna Fig. 92 ) ; 1 ♂, Cape Province, Franschoek Pass , 13.Mar.1976, leg. N.J. Duke (coll. Duke, TMPS) .

Diagnosis. Alonina pyrocraspis is somewhat similar to A. luteopunctata , A. pyretra and A. rufa , in particular the coloration of the body and the forewing, but appears more clearly marked with well defined transparent areas. A. luteopunctata can be distinguished by the much larger external transparent area, and thereby narrower, in males nearly absent apical area, and the narrower discal spot with pale reddish suffused distal margin (discal spot distally pure red in A. pyrocraspis ). A. pyretra and A. rufa differ by the orange, not dark brown coloration of the hindwing discal spot, veins and margins, A. rufa further by the orange, semitransparent hindwing dorsum. The male genitalia ( Fig. 110 ) are very similar to Alonina rufa , but have the valva shorter and broader (see diagnosis of that species). The female genitalia were not examined.

Figures

FIGURES 13–24. Specimens of Alonina Walker, 1856: 13–15. Alonina luteopunctata (Freina, 2011), (13–14) ♂, paratype, Cape Province, Kubusie forest; (15) ♀, paratype, Cape Province, Hogsback. 16–18. A. pyrethra (Hampson, 1919), (16) ♀ holotype; (17–18) ♀, Cape Town, Table Mountain. 19–20. A pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910), (19) ♂ holotype; (20) ♀, Cape Province, Natures Valley. 21–24. A. rufa new sp., (21) ♀ paratype, “Cap”; (22) ♂ holotype; (23–24) ♂ paratype, Western Cape Province, vic. Kleinmond, southern slopes of Palmiet Mountains.

FIGURES 92–98. Male antennae: (92) Alonina pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910); (93) Alonina rygchiiformis Walker, 1856; (94) Anaudia felderi Wallengren, 1863; (95) Austrosetia semirufa Felder & Felder, 1874; (96) Felderiola candescens (Felder & Felder, 1874); (97) Monopetalotaxis doleriformis (Walker, 1856); (98) Hagnogyna bartschi (Freina, 2011).

FIGURES 109–110. Male genitalia of Alonina Walker, 1856: (109) A. rygchiiformis Walker, 1856; (110) A. pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910).