Homadaula aarviki, Mey, 2022

Mey, Wolfram, 2022, Unexpected diversity: ten new species of Homadaula Lower, 1899 from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Galacticoidea: Galacticidae), Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 21-33 : 23

Homadaula aarviki sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype ♂, Kenya, Rift Valley, Kajiado North Dist [rict]., Masai Lodge , 1660 m, 7.xii.2010, leg. D. Agassiz & L. Aarvik, D.J.I.A. slide 1349 (coll. Agassiz).

Paratypes: 1 ♂, same locality, 1.xii.2010, leg. D. Agassiz & L. Aarvik , cleared abdomen in glycerol vial (coll. Agassiz).

Remarks: This species was described from South Yemen. The new record in Sansibar [= Zanzibar] shows that Homadaula species may have large ranges in Africa. Probably, the species also occurs in Kenya and Ethiopia. The incertae sedis species Homadaula inornata (Walsingham, 1900) was described from Socotra. It cannot be excluded that both names are synonyms and refer to one and the same species.