Protolychnis maculata ( Walsingham, 1881 )

Park, Kyu-Tek & Prins, Willy De, 2019, A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4623 (1), pp. 61-89 : 84

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932402

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scientific name

Protolychnis maculata ( Walsingham, 1881 )
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Protolychnis maculata ( Walsingham, 1881) View in CoL

( Figs. 10A, D View FIGURE 10 ; 11 View FIGURE 11 A–D, I)

Lecithocera maculata Walsingham, 1881: 276 View in CoL . TL: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [NHMUK].

Protolychnis maculata View in CoL ; Meyrick 1920: 78; Meyrick 1925: 242; Meyrick 1938: 13; Janse 1954: 346.

Adult. ( Fig. 10A, D View FIGURE 10 ). Wingspan 14 mm.

Diagnosis. The holotype deposited in the NHMUK is illustrated in Fig. 10D View FIGURE 10 , with its wing venation ( Fig. 10F View FIGURE 10 ).

Male genitalia ( Figs. 11A – C View FIGURE 11 ). See also Janse (1954, Pl. 142, Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 - line drawing; Pl. 152, Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 - photo). The figure of the male genitalia given by Janse (1954, Pl. 148, Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ) was erroneously placed near those of other species.

Female genitalia ( Figs. 11I View FIGURE 11 ). The genitalia of the holotype in NHMUK are illustrated here. See also Janse (1954, Pl. 142, Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 & 4 View FIGURE 4 - line drawings; Pl. 158, Figs. 1-b View FIGURE 1 , photo).

Material examined. 1♀ (holotype) [ South Africa] in the NHMUK; more than 15 specimens are placed under the name of P. maculata in TMSA. Of these, the genitalia of a male (P.P.Rust, 23 vii [19]25, A.J.T. Janse) were dissected (gen. slide no. CIS-7211/ Park) .

Distribution. Rep. Congo ( Meyrick 1920), DR Congo ( Meyrick 1938), Kenya ( Meyrick 1920), Malawi ( Meyrick 1920), Namibia (Janse 1954), South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) ( Walsingham 1881), Tanzania ( Walsingham 1891), and Zimbabwe (Janse 1954).

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

TMSA

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lecithoceridae

Genus

Protolychnis

Loc

Protolychnis maculata ( Walsingham, 1881 )

Park, Kyu-Tek & Prins, Willy De 2019
2019
Loc

Protolychnis maculata

Meyrick, E. 1938: 13
Meyrick, E. 1925: 242
Meyrick, E. 1920: 78
1920
Loc

Lecithocera maculata

Walsingham, T. G. 1881: 276
1881
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