Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898)

Delabye, Sylvain, Gaona, Fernando P, Potocky, Pavel, Foxcroft, Llewellyn C, Halamova, Pavla, Hejda, Martin, MacFadyen, Sandra, Pyskova, Klara, Sedlacek, Ondrej, Stankova, Marketa, Storch, David, Pysek, Petr & Tropek, Robert, 2022, Thirteen moth species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Noctuidae) newly recorded in South Africa, with comments on their distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 89729-89729 : 89729

Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898)

Noctuidae , Eustrotiinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898); Location: country: South Africa; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Redrocks waterhole; verbatimElevation: 328 m; decimalLatitude: -23.172717; decimalLongitude: 31.299895; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 26/11/2019; habitat: Perennial river ; open savanna grassland with stunted mopane; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898); Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Tinyarhini waterhole; verbatimElevation: 280 m; decimalLatitude: -23.151872; decimalLongitude: 31.475738; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: eventDate: 28/11/2019; habitat: Open savanna grassland with stunted mopane; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898); Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Road S 47, Nwanedzi river; verbatimElevation: 278 m; decimalLatitude: -23.793044; decimalLongitude: 31.479490; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 02/12/2019; habitat: Seasonal river ; mopani dominated woodland savanna on granite: Acacia , Bushwillow and Mopane ; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898); Location: country: South Africa ; stateProvince: Limpopo; verbatimLocality: Kruger NP, Nkokhodzi river, road H1-6; verbatimElevation: 358 m; decimalLatitude: -23.239622; decimalLongitude: 31.312995; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : eventDate: 26/11/2019; habitat: Seasonal river ; mopani dominated woodland savanna on granite: Acacia , Bushwillow and Mopane ; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; institutionCode: IECA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

The identification was based on Hacker (2016).

Distribution

We report this species for the first time in South Africa. It was previously known from several countries in Eastern Africa (including Tanzania in the Zambezian biogeographic region; ( Hacker 2016, De Prins and De Prins 2022). Our South African record thus extended its distribution for over 1,000 km southwards (Fig. 12 ).

Figures

Figure 12. Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898), South Africa, Kruger National Park; A male; B male genitalia. The scale represents 5 mm.