Alucita dohertyi (Walsingham, 1909)

Ustjuzhanin, Peter, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Streltzov, Alexander & Tropek, Robert, 2024, Magnifying the hotspot: descriptions of nine new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with an identification key to all species known from Cameroon, ZooKeys 1193, pp. 25-48 : 25

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4AC6C273-6814-41DC-A26C-7AB1F1335A98

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D4C6DEDB-ECA1-5FD7-BA4A-71C09E840ACE

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scientific name

Alucita dohertyi (Walsingham, 1909)
status

 

Alucita dohertyi (Walsingham, 1909) View in CoL

Orneodes dohertyi Walsingham, 1909: 174. Type locality: Ibea, Kikuyu, Escarpment, E Africa, [Kenya].

Orneodes decaryella Viette, 1956: 89. Type locality: Madagascar.

Type material examined.

Holotype • ♂, NHMUK, examined by the authors.

Other material examined.

5 ex. (NECJU, CUK), Cameroon, Mount Cameroon, Mapanja, 1850 m a.s.l., 4.1157°N, 9.1315°E, 28.X.2017, lgt. V. Maicher, S. Delabye GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

The species is known from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of South Africa ( De Prins and De Prins 2023), and Cameroon.

Note.

New species for Cameroon.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Alucitidae

Genus

Alucita

Loc

Alucita dohertyi (Walsingham, 1909)

Ustjuzhanin, Peter, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Streltzov, Alexander & Tropek, Robert 2024
2024
Loc

Orneodes decaryella

Viette 1956
1956
Loc

Orneodes dohertyi

Walsingham 1909
1909