Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993

Hausmann, Axel, Sciarretta, Andrea & Parisi, Francesco, 2016, The Geometrinae of Ethiopia II: Tribus Hemistolini, genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae), Zootaxa 4065 (1), pp. 1-63 : 19

Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993

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Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot (1993) : 50. Locus typicus: Ethiopia (Choa, = Shewa/ Shoa ), Debre Zeit, 1800 m (Holotype ♂ ZSM, examined and barcoded: BC ZSM Lep 69701 (658bp), BC ZSM Lep 76115 (164bp); gen.prp. ZSM G 19503 taken from paratype from type locality; all four paratypes at the ZSM are males with brushed tip of abdomen).

Material. The type series (n=5) from Debre Zeit (northern prov. Oromia) was examined at the ZSM.

Redescription. Adult ( Fig. 13 ). Wingspan. Male 24 – 30 mm. Ground colour leaf green, irrorated with white strigulae. Forewing without spot at the inner termen. On fore- and hindwing, terminal and discal dots absent. Hindwing termen round. Length of male palpi 1.0 – 1.2 times diameter of eye, tip and upperside reddish or darker ochre, underside white. Frons reddish. Antennae bipectinate in male. Antennal branches pale ochre. Male frenulum developed, weak. Male hindtibia with four spurs, without pencil.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 54 ). Uncus short. Short socii present. Valva broad, with a large subapical ventral membranous lobe. Sacculus sclerotized, towards tip curved, terminally round and spinulose. Dorsobasal margin of sacculus with stout thorny process. Aedeagus with a very narrow proximal stalk, length 2.1 mm, without cornuti, vesica weakly granulated. Sternum A8 with two poorly sclerotized prominent lobes and deep invagination between.

Genetic data. BIN: BOLD:ACL5616. Nearest neighbour: P. n ere i s (3.0%; identic when excluding 3rd position). At large genetic distance from subspecies yabellensis subsp. n. (7.9%).

Remarks. In male genitalia reminiscent of P. nandiensis , but harpe with a hook at its base.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 18. Adults of Ethiopian Prasinocyma species. Scale Bar— 1 cm. In parantheses the ID-numbers of genitalia slides, and / or DNA barcoding, and / or nomenclatural status of the illustrated specimen are given. 13. Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993 (gen. prp. ZSM G 19503; Paratype); 14. Prasinocyma shoa yabellensis subsp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 85819; Paratype); 15. Prasinocyma robusta sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 85818; Paratype); 16. Prasinocyma amharensis sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 40510; Holotype); 17. Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930; 18. Prasinocyma monikae sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 45504; Holotype).

FIGURES 51 – 55. Male genitalia of Ethiopian Prasinocyma species. Scale Bar (s) — 1 mm. In parantheses the ID-numbers of genitalia slides are given. 51. Prasinocyma hailei Debauche, 1937 (gen. prp. ZSM G 19395); 52. Prasinocyma loveridgei Prout, 1926, Kenya (cf. perpulverata) (gen. prp. ZSM G 16092); 53. Prasinocyma nereis Townsend, 1952 (comb. n.) (gen. prp. ZSM G 19402); 54. Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993 (gen. prp. ZSM G 16246); 55. Prasinocyma shoa yabellensis subsp. n., (gen. prp. ZSM G 19401).