Lomadonta saturata Swinhoe, 1904

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

Lomadonta saturata Swinhoe, 1904

Erebidae , Lymantriinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Lomadontasaturata Swinhoe, 1904; Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 22/04/2015; 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: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Lomadontasaturata Swinhoe, 1904; Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Bamboo Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 350 m; decimalLatitude: 04.0899; decimalLongitude: 09.0517; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 10/02/2016; 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: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Lomadontasaturata Swinhoe, 1904; Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 16/04/2015; 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: 5; sex: 4 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Lomadontasaturata Swinhoe, 1904; Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Drink Gari, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1022; decimalLongitude: 09.0630; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 05/02/2016; 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: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Lomadontasaturata Swinhoe, 1904; 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: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 01/02/2016; 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: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Crater Lake, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,450 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1443; decimalLongitude: 09.0717; Identification: identifiedBy: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 24/11/2016; habitat: Submontane 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: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); Location: continent: Africa; country: Cameroon; stateProvince: Southwest Region; locality: Elephant Camp, Mount Cameroon ; verbatimElevation: 1,850 m; decimalLatitude: 04.1453; decimalLongitude: 09.0870; Identification: identifiedBy: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 18/11/2014; habitat: Montane 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: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Mimopachatripunctata (Aurivillius, 1905); 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: Vincent Maicher; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Light catching; eventDate: 24/10/2017; habitat: Montane forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: http://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

This species was considered as endemic to Nigeria; we extended its known distribution eastwards. On Mount Cameroon, it was collected in forests from 350 to 1,100 m a.s.l. (Fig. 15 ).

Figures

Figure 15. Lomadonta saturata Swinhoe, 1904. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale bar represents 1 cm.