Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930

Hausmann, Axel, Sciarretta, Andrea & Parisi, Francesco, 2016, The Geometrinae of Ethiopia II: Tribus Hemistolini, genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae), Zootaxa 4065 (1), pp. 1-63 : 21

Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930

( Figs 17 , 58 , 91 )

Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout (1930) : 24. Locus typicus: Kenya, Lumbwa (Syntype (s) ♂ NHM, examined).

Material. Amhara: 1♂, Debre Sina (locality no. 59; BC ZSM Lep 40509, gen.prp. ZSM G 19459); 1♀, Debre Sina (no. 60; BC ZSM Lep 81475). Southern Nations: 2♂, Arba Minch (no. 44; BC ZSM Lep 81489, gen.prp. ZSM G 19531). Oromia: 1♂, Kibre Mengist (no. 47; BC ZSM Lep 84192); 1♂, Bale (no. 64); 2♂, Bale (no. 57; BC ZSM Lep. 84191, gen.prp.19647); 2♂, Bale (no. 93).

Redescription. Adult ( Fig. 17 ). Wingspan. Male and female 29 – 32 mm. Ground colour deep leaf green, slightly irrorated with white scales, forewing costa with red scales. Forewings with a spot at ½ of the inner margin, white proximally and brownish in the distal half. On fore- and hindwings, a black discal dot and terminal dots present. Hindwing termen angled at M3. Length of male palpi 1.0 – 1.2 times diameter of eye, tip and upperside brown, underside white. Female palpi 1.5 times of diameter of eye. Frons deep green, sometimes ochre or whitish toward proboscis. Antennae bipectinate in male, filiform in female. Antennal branches pale ochre. Male frenulum present. Male hindtibia with white, weak pencil and four spurs.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 58 ). Uncus short. Socii developed as comparatively large lobed, setose patches. Saccus bent. Valva large with large ventral subapical lobe, sacculus sclerotized with a long basal narrow curved process, and two other long, pointed and spinulose processes, arising from sacculus subterminally and terminally. Aedeagus (length 2.0 – 2.1 mm) sigmoid, with spinulose sclerotization (“cornutus”). Sternum A8 with two sclerotized subrectangular projections.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 91 ). Sterigma elongate, strongly sclerotized. Antrum funnel-shaped, sclerotized. Corpus bursae small, oval. Signum very slightly sclerotized and inconspicuous, posteriorly with two mall spinules.

Genetic data. BIN: BOLD:AAY3239. Infraspecific variation 0.8%. Nearest neighbours in Ethiopia: P. albivenata (5.9%) and P. amharensis sp. n. (7.9%).

Remarks. Well matching genitalia of the type specimen (examined in NHM).

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 18. Adults of Ethiopian Prasinocyma species. Scale Bar— 1 cm. In parantheses the ID-numbers of genitalia slides, and / or DNA barcoding, and / or nomenclatural status of the illustrated specimen are given. 13. Prasinocyma shoa Herbulot, 1993 (gen. prp. ZSM G 19503; Paratype); 14. Prasinocyma shoa yabellensis subsp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 85819; Paratype); 15. Prasinocyma robusta sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 85818; Paratype); 16. Prasinocyma amharensis sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 40510; Holotype); 17. Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930; 18. Prasinocyma monikae sp. n. (BC ZSM Lep 45504; Holotype).

FIGURES 56 – 59. Male genitalia of Ethiopian Prasinocyma species. Scale Bar (s) — 1 mm. In parantheses the ID-numbers of genitalia slides are given. 56. Prasinocyma robusta sp. n. (gen. prp. ZSM G 19467); 57. Prasinocyma amharensis sp. n. (gen. prp. ZSM G 19595); 58. Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930 (gen. prp. ZSM G 19647); 59. Prasinocyma monikae sp. n. (gen. prp. ZSM G 19404).

FIGURES 86 – 91. Female genitalia of Ethiopian Prasinocyma species. Scale Bar (s) — 1 mm. In parantheses the ID-numbers of genitalia slides are given. 86. Prasinocyma hailei Debauche, 1937 (gen. prp. ZSM G 16089); 87. Prasinocyma loveridgei Prout, 1926, Kenya (cf. perpulverata) (gen. prp. ZSM G 16101); 88. Prasinocyma shoa yabellensis subsp. n. (gen. prp. ZSM G 15972); 89. Prasinocyma robusta sp. n. (gen. prp. ZSM G 16090); 90. Prasinocyma amharensis sp. n. (gen. prp. DAEF GU); 91. Prasinocyma jefferyi Prout, 1930 (gen. prp. ZSM G 15991).