Ozarba bicolora (Bethune-Baker, 1911)

Delabye, Sylvain, Gaona, Fernando P, Potocky, Pavel, Foxcroft, Llewellyn C, Halamova, Pavla, Hejda, Martin, MacFadyen, Sandra, Pyskova, Klara, Sedlacek, Ondrej, Stankova, Marketa, Storch, David, Pysek, Petr & Tropek, Robert, 2022, Thirteen moth species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Noctuidae) newly recorded in South Africa, with comments on their distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 89729-89729 : 89729

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e89729
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scientific name	Ozarba bicolora (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
status

Treatment

Noctuidae , Eustrotiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba bicolora (Bethune-Baker, 1911); Location: country: South Africa; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Road S 56, Mphongolo river, 1 km N of Ribye waterhole; verbatimElevation: 314 m; decimalLatitude: -22.991653; decimalLongitude: 31.270644; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 25/02/2020; habitat: Perennial river ; open savanna grassland with stunted mopane; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba bicolora (Bethune-Baker, 1911); Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Shisha West waterhole; verbatimElevation: 363 m; decimalLatitude: -22.827400; decimalLongitude: 31.216057; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 25/02/2020; habitat: Seasonal river ; open savanna grassland with stunted mopane; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps GoogleMaps

Description

The identification was based on Hacker (2016).

Distribution

We report this species for the first time in South Africa. This species was known only from Eastern Africa: the Somalian (Ethiopia and Kenya), Shaba (Uganda) and Zambezian (Tanzania) biogeographical regions ( Hacker 2016, De Prins and De Prins 2022). Therefore, our record extended its known distribution for over 1,000 km southwards (Fig. 8 View Figure 8 ).