Laeliopsis punctuligera Aurivillius, 1911

Delabye, Sylvain, Sedlacek, Ondrej, Maicher, Vincent & Tropek, Robert, 2020, New records of six moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Lasiocampidae) species in south African countries, with comments on their distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59339-59339 : 59339

Laeliopsis punctuligera Aurivillius, 1911

Lasiocampidae , Lasiocampinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Laeliopsispunctuligera Aurivillius, 1911; Location: continent: Africa; country: Namibia; stateProvince: Kavango East; locality: Bwabwata National Park ; verbatimElevation: 1,018 m; decimalLatitude: -18.1170; decimalLongitude: 21.6797; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 18/11/2016; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

The identification of this species was based on Pinhey (1975).

Distribution

Our single specimen is the first record of this species in Namibia. It was collected in the Bwabwata National Park, belonging to the Zambezian biogeographical region. The species was previously known from only this region, including from Zambia and Zimbabwe bordering with Namibia. Therefore, extension of its distribution into the Caprivi Strip in north-eastern Namibia is not surprising (Fig. 8 ).

Figures

Figure 8. Laeliopsis punctuligera Aurivillius, 1911, male, Namibia, Bwabwata National Park. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale represents 1 cm.