Alucita rhaptica (Meyrick, 1920)

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
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scientific name	Alucita rhaptica (Meyrick, 1920)
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Orneodes rhaptica Meyrick, 1920: 82. Type locality: Kwale County, [Kenya].

Type material examined.

Holotype • ♀, Museum National d′Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN), examined by the authors.

Other material examined.

1 ♀ (NECJU), Cameroon, Bamboo Camp , 350 m a.s.l., Mount Cameroon, 4.0879°N, 9.0505°E, 17-23.IV.2015, lgt. V. Maicher, Sz. Sáfián, S. Janeček, R. Tropek GoogleMaps . • 1 ♀, 20.XII.2014, same data as the previous specimen GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

The species occurs in Tanzania, Malawi, Republic of South Africa ( De Prins and De Prins 2023), and Cameroon.

Note.

New species for Cameroon. Female genitalia of this species were illustrated in Ustjuzhanin et al. (2020a).