Erebidae
Arctiinae
First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges
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
Biodiversity Data Journal
2020
8
50543
50543
19304147-FFAD-5EDE-8F56-0A6C9FB74DF2
(Hampson, 1914)
Hampson
1914
Insecta
Erebidae
Palaeugoa
GBIF
Animalia
Palaeugoa spurrelli
Lepidoptera
0
50543
Arthropoda
species
spurrelli
Erebidae, Arctiinae
Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 10; sex: 3 males, 7 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 09/02/2016; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 28; sex: 16 males, 12 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/04/2015; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 4; sex: 3 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 17/12/2014; habitat: Lowland forest disturbed by historical selective logging; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 71; sex: 33 males, 38 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 04/02/2016; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 14; sex: 12 males, 2 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 20/04/2015; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 10; sex: 9 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 06/12/2014; habitat: Primary lowland forest; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence:individualCount: 5; sex: 3 males, 2 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: PlanteCam Camp, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 1,100 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1175; decimalLongitude: 09.0709; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 30/01/2015; habitat: Upland 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: 2; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon:scientificName: Palaeugoaspurrelli (Hampson, 1914); Location:continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: PlanteCam Camp, Mount Cameroon; verbatimElevation: 1,100 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1175; decimalLongitude: 09.0709; Identification:identifiedBy: Lukasz Przybylowicz; dateIdentified: 2017; Event:samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 18/12/2014; habitat: Upland forest locally disturbed by elephants; Record Level:type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution P. spurrelliwas reported only from Ghana and Kenya. Such scattered known distribution implies poor knowledge of the distributional range of the species. This is also the first record of the Palaeugoagenus in Cameroon. The two records from Mount Cameroon were made in lowland and upland forests (from 350 to 1,100 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 10).
2016-02-09
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.0899
Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon
9.0517
0
50543
10
7
3
Other material
2015-04-20
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.0899
Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon
9.0517
0
50543
28
12
16
Other material
2014-12-17
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.0899
Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon
9.0517
0
50543
4
1
3
Other material
2016-02-04
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.1022
Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon
9.063
0
50543
71
38
33
Other material
2015-04-20
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.1022
Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon
9.063
0
50543
14
2
12
Other material
2014-12-06
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.1022
Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon
9.063
0
50543
10
1
9
Other material
2015-01-30
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.1175
PlanteCam Camp, Mount Cameroon
9.0709
0
50543
5
2
3
Other material
2014-12-18
Light catching
ZMJU
Cameroon
4.1175
PlanteCam Camp, Mount Cameroon
9.0709
0
50543
2
2
Other material