Remigiodes remigina (Mabille, 1884)

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

Remigiodes remigina (Mabille, 1884)

Erebidae , Erebinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Remigiodesremigina (Mabille, 1884); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Hwange ; verbatimElevation: 1,033 m; decimalLatitude: -18.7051; decimalLongitude: 26.2039; 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: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Remigiodesremigina (Mabille, 1884); Location: continent: Africa; country: Zimbabwe; stateProvince: Matabeleland North; locality: Hwange ; verbatimElevation: 1,014 m; decimalLatitude: -18.6954; decimalLongitude: 26.1880; 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 detailed diagnosis made by Hacker (2016) enabled identification of this species.

Distribution

Our four captured individuals represent the first record of R. remigina in Zimbabwe. It is also the first record of Remigiodes in the country. This widespread species was already known from the Guinean (Togo, Nigeria), Congolian (Democratic Republic of Congo), Somalian (Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya) and Zambezian (Tanzania) biogeographic regions and from Madagascar. Our record extended its known continental distribution range by ca. 800 km southwards (Fig. 5 ).

Figures

Figure 5. Remigiodes remigina (Mabille, 1884), male, Zimbabwe, Hwange. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale represents 1 cm.