Uripao albizonata Hampson, 1926

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

Uripao albizonata Hampson, 1926

Erebidae , Calpinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Uripaoalbizonata Hampson, 1926; Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Mapanja Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1157; decimalLongitude: 09.1315; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 15/05/2017; habitat: Montane forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was known from Gabon and Sierra Leone only. This record confirmed its broader distribution. This is also the first record of the Uripao genus in Cameroon. On Mount Cameroon, our only record came from the montane forests (1,850 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 12 ).

Figures

Figure 12. Uripao albizonata Hampson, 1926. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.