Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 )

Mulvaney, Lydia R. J., 2021, Notes on the life history and taxonomy of Cerurina marshalli (Noctuoidea: Notodontidae: Cerurinae), Metamorphosis 32 (1), pp. 1-12 : 6-7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4314/met.v32i1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14198003

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FC7387C2-1058-FFA4-C955-059B1BBAC537

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scientific name

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 )
status

 

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920)

( Figs 20‒21 View Figures 18–31 , genitalia Figs 37‒38, 46)

Cerura bifasciata Janse, 1920: 171 .

Afrocerura leonensis bifasciata ( Janse, 1920) View in CoL : Kiriakoff, 1963: 213.

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920) : Schintlmeister & Witt, 2015: 31.

Name bearing type:

Holotype ♀ ( Fig. 20 View Figures 18–31 ): “// Cerura / bifasciata Janse. [handwritten] / Type No. 1655 [number handwritten] // S. Rhodesia / ex. Bulaw. Mus. [handwritten] // Photo done by / A. SCHINTLMEISTER / #25.977 [yellow label]//” ( TMSA).

Additional material examined: (all ANHRT) ZAMBIA. 1♂ – 1400 m, Kankonde Camp , Mutinondo Stream, 12°23′29″S, 31°19′24″E, 12‒15.xi.2014, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.12, ANHRTUK00073573 , Gen. slide No. LG5364 ♂; GoogleMaps 1♂ – 1197 m, Bufumu Forest , Kasanka National Park, 12°29′50″S, 30°11′31″E, 1.xii.2012, Actinic Light, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.7, ANHRTUK00073572 , Gen. slide No. LG5363 ♂; GoogleMaps 1♂ – 1340 m, Jiwundu swamp, 11°51′54″S, 25°33′20″E, 21‒24. xi.2014, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.12, ANHRTUK00010143 , ANHRT GEN. SLIDE NO. 00313 ♂; GoogleMaps 2♀♀ – 1179 m, Greystone, Kitwe , Copperbelt Province, 12°55′50″S, 28°14′29″E, 17‒18.xi.2014, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.12, ANHRTUK00043083 GoogleMaps and ANHRTUK00042917 , ANHRT GEN. SLIDE NO. 00316 ♀. GoogleMaps

Remarks

This species was originally described from a single female specimen from Zimbabwe. Kiriakoff (1963: 214) designated a (redundant) neallotype (NHMUK) and transferred bifasciata to the genus Afrocerura as a subspecies of A. leonensis . Schintlmeister & Witt (2015) considered bifasciata to be a good species, a view which is upheld here. As previously stated under leonensis , the morphological differences between the genitalia of leonensis and bifasciata are found to be distinctive enough to consider them as being separate species. The male genitalia and habitus of true bifasciata are illustrated here for the first time (Figs 37‒38, 21).

Distribution

The specimens collected in Zambia represent a new country record. The species is now known from Zimbabwe, Tanzania (De Prins & De Prins, 2019) and Zambia.

TMSA

South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria, Transvaal Museum

TMSA

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Afrocerura

Loc

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 )

Mulvaney, Lydia R. J. 2021
2021
Loc

Afrocerura leonensis bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 )

KIRIAKOFF, S. G. 1963: 213
1963
Loc

Cerura bifasciata

JANSE, A. J. T. 1920: 171
1920
Loc

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 )

Afrocerura bifasciata bifasciata ( Janse, 1920 ) : Schintlmeister & Witt, 2015: 31 .
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