Hypopyra africana (Kirby, 1896)

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

Hypopyra africana (Kirby, 1896)

Erebidae , Erebinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Hypopyraafricana (Kirby, 1896); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Victoria Falls ; verbatimElevation: 927 m; decimalLatitude: -17.9018; decimalLongitude: 25.7634; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 14/12/2017; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Hypopyraafricana (Kirby, 1896); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Victoria Falls ; verbatimElevation: 969 m; decimalLatitude: -17.9099; decimalLongitude: 25.7487; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 14/12/2017; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Hypopyraafricana (Kirby, 1896); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Victoria Falls ; verbatimElevation: 908 m; decimalLatitude: -17.8281; decimalLongitude: 25.6568; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 13/12/2017; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Hypopyraafricana (Kirby, 1896); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Victoria Falls ; verbatimElevation: 909 m; decimalLatitude: -17.8416; decimalLongitude: 25.6446; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 13/12/2017; 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 photograph of the type specimen in De Prins and De Prins (2020) and comparison with the original description in Kirby (1896).

Distribution

Our records expand the known distribituion of the species to Zimbabwe. Hypopyra africana was previously reported from the Somalian (Kenya), Zambezian and Southern African regions, including countries bordering with Zimbabwe (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia). All six reported specimens were found near Victoria Falls and partially fill the gap in our knowledge of the distribution of this species (Fig. 4 ).

Figures

Figure 4. Hypopyra africana (Kirby, 1896), female, Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale represents 1 cm.