Afrogegenes hottentota (Latreille, [1824])

Miles, William R. C., Morgan, Lauren E., Mulvaney, Lydia R. J. & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2022, A contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna of Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique from African Natural History Research Trust expeditions (Papilionoidea), Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 48-63 : 52

Afrogegenes hottentota (Latreille, [1824])

Futi Corridor 2: SF (1) [1]

Afrogegenes letterstedti (Wallengren, 1857) ( Figs 2 , 3 ) West Gate 2: SF (5), SF-ST (2); Near swamp forest 2: ST (6); Futi Corridor 2: SF (3) [16]

Remarks: the females of A. hottentota and A. letterstedti are incredibly difficult to separate based on external characters alone ( Larsen, 2005; De Jong & Coutsis, 2017). A pair of A. letterstedti were caught in copula in MSR and upon dissection of the female ( Fig. 3 ), it conformed to the Type A genitalia as figured in De Jong & Coutsis (2017: 53, figs. 53-58). Although not conclusive based on a single specimen, it is possible that the 14 females listed below are also referable to A. letterstedti , due to the rarity of A. hottentota in this study.

Afrogegenes sp. (♀♀)

West Gate 2: SF (7), SF-ST (1); Ponta Milibangalala 2: DF (1); Near swamp forest 2: ST (3); Futi Corridor 2: SF (1); 3: SFxWL (1) [14]

Remarks: These fourteen specimens were not dissected, and therefore cannot be identified to species (see remark on A. letterstedti , above). One specimen recorded at light.

Figures

Figure 2 – Afrogegenes letterstedti ♀ habitus. Dorsal (A), ventral (B). Scale bar = 1cm.

Figure 3 – Afrogegenes letterstedti ♀ pre-vaginal plate, the diagnostic shallow indentation indicated by a black arrow (see De Jong & Coutsis, 2017 for a full explanation)