Eoophyla pervenustalis ( Hampson, 1897 )

Agassiz, David J. L., 2012, The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa, Zootaxa 3494, pp. 1-73 : 42

Eoophyla pervenustalis ( Hampson, 1897)

Cataclysta pervenustalis Hampson, 1897: 152 .

Type locality: Ghana: Accra

Imago (Fig. 56): Wingspan 18–26mm. Head whitish; labial palpus upturned, segment 3 slender white, longer than segment 2, segment 2 with some pale brown scales beneath; maxillary palpus small, whitish. Thorax ochreous white. Forewing ground colour white, costa brown in basal half; a weak fuscous antemedian fascia; an oblique yellow median fascia from dorsum halfway towards costa, then bent to just above grey tornal spot; a short yellow bar between tornus and middle of costa, edged brown; a fuscous costal strigula followed by a yellow one, outwardly edged brown; terminal area yellow, edged dark fuscous on inside and with a series of black dots along termen; cilia fuscous. Hindwing base white; a very weak brown subbasal fascia; a broad yellow median band outwardly edged with a double brown line; brown subterminal line; four black terminal eyespots, 1 small, each with a broken silver dash near top; terminal cilia fuscous, but dark grey by eyespots.

Male genitalia (Fig. 118): Uncus tapered; gnathos 2/3 uncus; valva broadened with thorns at apex, widening to 2/3, then dorsum curved in towards pointed apex, inside the apex is a process bearing a single sickle-shaped seta reaching just past halfway along the vaslva; juxta tapering with 3–4 thorns at apex; Aedeagus simple.

Female genitalia (Fig. 175): Ostium wide; ductus slightly longer than corpus bursae with a pair of sclerotized ridges at 2/3; corpus bursae ovate, signum comprising a long broad spinose band.

Tympanal organs: Venulae widely separated, straight until divergent around tympanal organs.

Diagnosis: A large species, distinguished by the fuscous line outside the yellow median band of the hindwing, single subterminal line and silver dashes between the eyespots.

Biology: Unknown; in rivers; adults probably continuously brooded, recorded in i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, x, xi, xii.

Distribution: Kenya, Uganda, Angola, Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone.

Material examined: Holotype: ♂ Ghana: Accra ( BMNH).

KENYA: 2♂ 3♀ Kakamega ( DJLA) , 1♂ 1♀ Kakamega ( BMNH) 1♀ Kakamega ( MN) , 1♂ Kakamega ( KVNM) , 1♀ Matthews Range ( KVNM) ; ANGOLA: Cachoeiras 1♀ ( BMNH) ; SIERRA LEONE: 1♂ 3♀ Bo ( BMNH) ,; CONGO: 1♂ 5♀ Station d’Epulu ( BMNH) ; NIGERIA: 2♂ 3♀ Ilesha , 2♀ Zungeru ( BMNH) ; UGANDA: 8♀ Entebbe ( BMNH) ; CAMEROON: 1♀ Mundemba Korup N.P. ( BMNH) , 2♀ S.W. Mundemba Korup , 3♀ Bitchenga, 1 Mt Kupe , 1♂ Loun ( KVNM) , 1♀ “ 1m Hg ” ( ZMUC) ; GHANA: 2♀ Kete-Krachi ( BMNH) .