Vespanthedon chalciphora ( Hampson, 1919 ) Bartsch, Daniel, 2013

Bartsch, Daniel, 2013, Revisionary checklist of the Southern African Sesiini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) with description of new species, Zootaxa 3741 (1), pp. 1-54 : 28

Vespanthedon chalciphora ( Hampson, 1919) new comb. ( Monopetalotaxis )

Fig. 72

Literature. Hampson 1919: 59; Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 7; Gaede 1929: 521; Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 42; Vári, Kroon & Krüger 2002: 67; Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 45.

Specimen examined. Holotype: ♀ ( Fig. 72 ) “ Br. C. Afrika [ Malawi], Mt. Mlanje , 30.VIII.1913, S. A. Neave ” ( BMNH).

Hampson (1919) described this species in Monopetalotaxis from a single female from Malawi. No further specimens are known. There are no significant similarities with the type species of Monopetalotaxis , M. doleriformis , or with any other species discussed here. According to the pattern of the narrow wings and to the configuration of the wing venation a relationship with V. cerceris Le Cerf, 1917 can be assumed. Therefore, V. chalciphora is here provisionally transferred to Vespanthedon .

Figures

FIGURES 61–72. Specimens of Hagnogyna and Vespanthedon Le Cerf, 1917: 61–66. Hagnogyna sanguicosta (Hampson, 1919), (61) ♂ syntype; (62) ♀ syntype; (63, 66) ♂ Zimbabwe, Christan Bank; (64–65) ♀, Zimbabwe, Hunyani river. 67–70. H. bartschi (Freina, 2011) (67–68) ♂ Paratype, Eastern Cape Province, 50 km W Graaf Reinet, E Mt. Torberg; (69–70) ♀ Paratype, Natal, Impetyeni forest. 71. Vespanthedon cerceris Le Cerf, 1917, ♂ holotype. 72. Vespanthedon chalciphora (Hampson, 1919), ♀ holotype.