Lygropia aureomarginalis (Gaede, 1916) Gaede, 1916

Mally, Richard, Korycinska, Anastasia, Agassiz, David J. L., Hall, Jayne, Hodgetts, Jennifer & Nuss, Matthias, 2015, Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea), ZooKeys 472, pp. 117-162 : 143

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Crambidae

Lygropia aureomarginalis (Gaede, 1916) comb. n. (Leucinodes)

Type locality.

Cameroon, Buea.

Material examined.

Holotype ♂ [small blue label] "Gr. Kamerunberg | Buea 1.-10. XI. 10 | 1000-1200 m | E. Hintz S. G.", [large blue handwritten label with black border] " Leucinodes | aureomarginalis | 83:8a Type Gaede" (ZMHB).

Remarks.

Lygropia is a polyphyletic genus containing 62 species ( Nuss et al. 2003-2014). We provisionally transfer Lygropia aureomarginalis (Gaede, 1916), comb. n. ( Leucinodes ) from Cameroon to this genus, as this species, according to wing pattern elements, is congeneric, if not conspecific, to Lygropia vinanyalis Viette, 1958 from Madagascar. Lygropia aureomarginalis can be distinguished externally from species of Leucinodes by the shiny golden wing maculation and the presence of two frenulum bristles in the female.