Macrotarsipodes sexualis ( Hampson, 1910 ) Bartsch & Sáfián, 2022

Bartsch, Daniel & Sáfián, Szabolcs, 2022, Taxonomic changes and review of the genera Tipulamima Holland, 1893 and Macrotarsipodes Le Cerf, 1916 stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Sesiinae), Zootaxa 5094 (1), pp. 103-128 : 122

Macrotarsipodes sexualis ( Hampson, 1910) comb. nov. ( Macrotarsipus )

( Figs 37–38 )

Macrotarsipus sexualis Hampson, 1910: 152 .

Tipulamima sexualis Hampson 1919: 57 ; Gaede 1929: 519.

Macrotarsipodes sexualis Le Cerf 1917: 341 ; Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 7; Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 41; Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 33.

Type material examined. Lectotype ♂ ( Fig. 37 ): S. Nigeria, Lagos [Label: 1908] H. Strachan leg. ( NHMUK); with labels: “ Lagos. / Strachan. / 1908-216.”; “ Macrotarsipus / sexualis. / Type ♂. Hmpsn.”; “ Type / H.T.” . Paralectotypes 2♀♀ ( Fig. 38 ) with the same data .

In the original description, Hampson (1910) lists 1♂ and 2♀♀ as primary types. Here we designate the male specimen as the lectotype. The two females are paralectotypes. Hampson states further: “the larva bores in Ipomoea , the cocoon appearing half out of the burrow with the pupa projecting from it when the moth emerges”. So far only known from the type series. The taxon waterloti Le Cerf, 1917 is not a synonym of M. sexualis , but a distinct species (stat. nov.) and is here placed in Lepidopoda . See remark for the genus above.

Figures

FIGS 32–43. Specimens of Macrotarsipodes. 32–33. M. leptosceles (Bradley, 1968). (32) holotype ♂. (33) paratype ♀. 34–36. M. pedunculata (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov., (34) holotype ♂. (35–36) ♂ Ghana, Gyawale, Kakum. 37–38. M. sexualis (Hampson, 1910) comb. nov. (37) lectotype ♂. (38) paralectotype ♀. 39–43. M. tricinctus Le Cerf, 1916 comb. rev. (39–40) ♂ South Africa, East London. (41) holotype ♂. (42–43) ♀ South Africa, Natal, Durban. Scale 10 mm.