Tumicla doa ( Kühne, 2007 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & László, Gyula M., 2019, Four new species of the genus Tumicla Wallengren, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 421-434 : 431

Tumicla doa ( Kühne, 2007)

( Figs 8 , 37 )

Asura doa Kühne, 2007 , Esperiana Memoir 3: 364, figs 37, 38, 135, 136 (Type locality: [Tanzania, Nguru Mts.] D.O. Afrika, Kwedikundi, Nguou Sebg.”).

Type material examined. Holotype ( Figs 8 , 37 ): ♀, “D.O. Afrika, Kwedikundi, Nguru Gebg ., Reuss S.G.” / “1363” / “T 281” / “ Holotype ♀ Asura doa by: L. Kühne ” / “ L. Kühne Dauerpräparat/e 388/2004” (Coll. ZMB) .

Remarks. 1. The type locality handwritten on the holotype label was erroneously cited by Kühne (2007) as “Nguou Sebg.” instead of “Nguru Gebg.” (Nguru Mts.). 2. The species is currently known by the female holotype only. The male paratype from Amani (the Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania) is not conspecific with the holotype and belongs to T. mbeghai . The second paratype, a female from South Africa (“Natal”) illustrated by Kühne (2007, fig. 136) and deposited in the private collection of Lars Kühne has not been examined by us. However, according to its external appearance and collecting locality, this specimen is certainly not conspecific with the holotype of T. doa and supposedly belongs to the narrowly patterned form of T. sagenaria ( Wallengren, 1860) distributed in South Africa.

Diagnosis. Forewing length is 12.5 mm in the holotype female. The differences between T. doa and T. mbeghai are explained above in the diagnosis of the latter.

Distribution. The species is reliably known from its type locality, the Nguru Mountains in eastern Tanzania only.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Tumicla spp.: adults. 1, T. elephantina, holotype ♂, Mozambique (ANHRT); 2, T. elephantina, paratype ♀, Mo- zambique (ANHRT); 3, T. elephantina, paratype ♀, Mozambique (ANHRT); 4, T. tsonga, holotype ♂, Mozambique (ANHRT); 5, T. tsonga, paratype ♀, Mozambique (ANHRT); 6, T. tsonga, paratype ♀, Mozambique (ANHRT); 7, T. rosea, holotype ♀, Malawi, Nyassaland (©NHMUK); 8, T. doa, holotype ♀, [Tanzania] Nguru Mts. (ZMB).

FIGURES 35–40. Tumicla spp.: female genitalia. 35, T. elephantina, paratype, Mozambique, slide AV4399 (ANHRT); 36, T. mbeghai, holotype, NE Tanzania, slide NHMUK 010314594 Volynkin (©NHMUK); 37, T. doa, holotype, Tanzania, slide 388/2004 Kühne (ZMB); 38, T. tsonga, paratype, Mozambique, slide AV3036 (ANHRT); 39, T. rosea, holotype, Malawi, Nyassaland, slide BMNH(E) Arct-5855 (©NHMUK); 40, T. rubea, paratype, South Africa, slide BMNH(E) Arct-5869 (©NH- MUK).