Homadaula peregovitsi, Mey, 2022
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.4314/met.v33i1.3 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1E08B5E9-925C-4E4E-A01D-0A2185FE8767 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14121051 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/926887D4-FF8B-FFD5-551C-20210FCFBEDD |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Homadaula peregovitsi |
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sp. nov. |
Homadaula peregovitsi sp. nov.
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Type material: Holotype ♂, Tanzania, Tanga, Mazumbai , 1520 m, 21.i.1985, leg. L. Peregovits, cleared abdomen in glycerol vial (coll. K. Larsen).
Description: Male ( Fig. 19 View Figure 19 ). Forewing length 6 mm, wing span 14.5 mm. Head with semi-erected scales, grey, with pale tips; labial palpi short, basal segment white, terminal segments brown; antenna ciliate on ventral and dorsal sides. Thorax grey-brown dorsally. Fore-wings ground colour grey, with indistinct white patches and some smaller, dark spots; hind-wings white in basal half, becoming darker towards apex and along terminal veins, fringes on anal margins white and longer than apical fringes. Accessory cell in forewing long ( Fig. 20 View Figure 20 ), hindwing M3 and Cu1a with long stalk, M2 connected with apically and encompassing anal tube; anellus with elongate basal part and large, distal part in form of a small gear wheel-like structure, pair of appendices of anellus present; valva long, with large, triangular dorsal lobe, valva in ventral view like the pincer of a scorpion, tips of ventral lobes rounded. Phallus short, dagger-like, bulla seminalis not observed.
Female: unknown.
Diagnosis: In the male genitalia, the completely divided tergal plate from tip to base together with the form of the valvae are diagnostic for the species. Externally, the brown forewings of the new species are similar to H. malawiensis sp. nov. and H. taraktica sp. nov. The species can only be separated by examination of the male genitalia.
Etymology: The species is named after the Hungarian lepidopterist László Peregovits, the collector of the new species.
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