Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912)

Delabye, Sylvain, Maicher, Vincent, Safian, Szabolcs, Potocky, Pavel, Mertens, Jan E. J., Przybylowicz, Lukasz, Murkwe, Mercy, Kobe, Ishmeal N., Fokam, Eric B., Janecek, Stepan & Tropek, Robert, 2020, First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 50543-50543 : 50543

Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912)

Erebidae , Arctiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Archithosiamakomensis (Strand, 1912); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Elephant Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1453; decimalLongitude: 09.0870; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 26/04/2017; habitat: Montane forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Balacracompsa (Jordan, 1904); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Crater Lake, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,450 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1443; decimalLongitude: 09.0717; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 26/04/2017; habitat: Submontane forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Balacracompsa (Jordan, 1904); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Elephant Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1453; decimalLongitude: 09.0870; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/11/2014; habitat: Montane forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Balacracompsa (Jordan, 1904); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Elephant Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1453; decimalLongitude: 09.0870; Identification: identifiedBy: Łukasz Przybyłowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/04/2017; habitat: Montane forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was known from Ghana, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea. Hence, its distribution in Cameroon was thus expected, although never reported before. The only specimen was caught in montane forest (1,850 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 5 ).

Figures

Figure 5. Archithosia makomensis (Strand, 1912). A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.