Alucita agassizi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2018

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 agassizi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2018
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Alucita agassizi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2018: 169. Type locality: Tanga, E Usambara, Tanzania.

Type material examined.

Holotype • ♀, Natural History Museum of United Kingdom, London, UK (NHMUK), examined by the authors (illustrated in Ustjuzhanin et al. 2018b).

Other material examined.

1 ♂ (CUK), 1 ♀ (NECJU), Cameroon, Bamboo Camp , 350 m a.s.l., Mount Cameroon, 4.0879°N, 9.0505°E, 19.XII.2014 GoogleMaps • 2 ♂ (NECJU), 12-20.XII.2014; 2 ♂ (CUK), 17-23.IV.2015, lgt. V. Maicher, Sz. Sáfián, S. Janeček, R. Tropek • 1 ♀ (CUK), Cameroon, PlanteCam Camp , 1100 m a.s.l., Mount Cameroon, 4.1175°N, 9.0709°E, 09-14.IV.2015 GoogleMaps , lgt. V. Maicher, Sz. Sáfián, S. Janeček, R. Tropek.

Distribution.

The species was found in Tanzania and Cameroon.

Note.

New species for Cameroon.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Alucitidae
Genus	Alucita