Phaulernis montuosa GAEDIKE, 2013

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2020, New taxa and new records of Afrotropical Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera) with a distributional checklist, Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2), pp. 359-364 : 360

Phaulernis montuosa GAEDIKE, 2013

Zimbabwe: 1 , Manicaland, Upper Bvumba 1680 m, 19°07'15"S, 32°46'10"E, 4.xi.2016, [leg.] D. Agassiz & K. Larsen: coll. Agassiz: first record for the country .

Epermenia minuta GAEDIKE, 2004

Madagascar: 2 , 1 , 1 specimen without abdomen, Andasibe , 950 m, 18°57'S 48°25'E, 15.–19.iv.2018, [leg.] D. Agassiz & K. Larsen: coll. Agassiz; SDEI .

The material contains one female, which allows the description for the first time of the genitalia structure ( Figs 3–4 ):

Proximal edge of segment VIII indented in the middle, ostium more strongly sclerotized, signum small, prolonged triangularly, the longest edge serrate.

Figures

Figs 3–14: Epermenia minuta (female: 3 – segment VIII, 4 – signum); Epermenia larseni (male: 5 – uncus-tegumen, 6 – valva, 7 – phallus); Epermenia albofasciata (male: 8 – uncus-tegumen, 9 – valva, 10 – phallus); Ochromolopis xeropa (male: 11 – uncustegumen, 12 – valva, 13 – phallus); Ochromolopis namibica (female: 14 – segment VIII).