Tumicla eala ( Kühne, 2007 )

Durante, Antonio & Apinda-Legnouo, Emelie Arlette, 2020, Report on species of the genus Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 in Gabon (Lepidoptera Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Zootaxa 4868 (1), pp. 90-116 : 114

Tumicla eala ( Kühne, 2007)

( Figs. 10I , 19 )

1♂; GABON • ♂; Makokou, Ipassa , 500 m; 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E; 19-2/ 11-3-2011; Durante leg.; Gen. sl. n. 612 MAD. In the first author’s collection .

Remarks. Original description in Kühne (2007); type locality Eala, on the Lolifa river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a habitat nowadays very similar to that of the Gabonese specimen and presumably also similar at the time of the type series, which dates back to 1936. Herein we add only a few observations regarding male genital morphology: uncus quite large, curved backwards, distally pointed; tegumen triangular, slightly longer than the eighth tergite (dorsal view); tuba analis membranous; vinculum U-shaped (ventro-caudal view) with fairly robust arms; saccus not deep; juxta pentagonal with a swelling in the middle; fultura superior double shield-shaped. Valva squat (about twice as long as wide at the median points); costa almost straight; apex highly rounded; termen convex, indented with a small conical process at the tornus. Processus distalis plicae unnoticeable, but 3-5 small residual setae are present. Aedeagus quite long, with a distal concavity just before the distal end, hosting a bent thornlike cornutus; coecum penis practically absent. Vesica not strongly everted, probably elongate, with no cornuti.

Figures

FIGURE 10. G. Tumicla parvipunctata n. sp. Right: enlarged thorax and wing base. H. Tumicla whitensis n. sp. Right: enlarged thorax and wing base. I. Tumicla eala (Kühne, 2007). Right: enlarged thorax and wing base.

FIGURE 19. Tumicla eala (Kühne, 2007). A. Genitalia, lateral view. B. Genitalia, ventral view. C. Uncus. D. Valva. E. Aedeagus. F. Fultura superior, dorsal view. G. Juxta. All pictures from gen. sl. n. 612 MAD.