New records of six moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Lasiocampidae) species in south African countries, with comments on their distribution
| Autor: | Vincent Maicher, Robert Tropek, Ondřej Sedláček, Sylvain Delabye |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences 0301 basic medicine Insecta Fauna Biodiversity & Conservation Distribution (economics) Carbotriplurida 01 natural sciences Lasiocampidae Lasiocampoidea Genus faunistic report Bilateria lcsh:QH301-705.5 Pterygota Ecology biology Cephalornis Circumscriptional names Heteroneura Lepidoptera Boltonocostidae Geography Habitat Circumscriptional name southern African region Afrotropics Porina Coelenterata Cossina Arthropoda Nephrozoa Protostomia Basal Circumscriptional names of the taxon under 010603 evolutionary biology Erebidae Noctuoidea Lepidoptera genitalia 03 medical and health sciences Zambezian region Panorpida Animalia Ecosystem Eumetabola sav Galacticoidea Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics business.industry Strashila incredibilis biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology Bombycina lcsh:Biology (General) Notchia Ecdysozoa Amphiesmenoptera light trapping Taxonomic Paper business Ditrysia |
| Zdroj: | Biodiversity Data Journal, Vol 8, Iss, Pp 1-15 (2020) Biodiversity Data Journal |
| ISSN: | 1314-2828 |
| Popis: | Southern Africa hosts a high diversity of ecosystems and habitats with a tremendous diversity of Lepidoptera. Although it is one of the most studied parts of the Afrotropics, the knowledge on diversity and distribution of south African moth fauna remains insufficient. To partly fill this gap, we surveyed macromoths by automatic light traps in five localities in two relatively less sampled south African countries. We reported six species and one genus (Remigioides) of moths which had not yet been recorded in Namibia or Zimbabwe. Although none of these records broadened the known distribution of individual species to a new biogeographical region, they still fill important gaps in their distributions. The known distributional ranges of two species have been substantially extended, although they are still within the same biogeographical regions: ca. 800 km southwards for Remigioides remigina (Mabille, 1884) and ca. 600 km westwards for Haplopacha cinerea Aurivillius, 1905. |
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