@article {23006, title = {New records of Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera) from Zanzibar Island with taxonomic notes and description of one new species of Odontopacha Aurivillius, 1909}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {5311}, year = {2023}, month = {06/2023}, pages = {417-445}, chapter = {417}, abstract = {

\"Seven genera and seven species of Lasiocampidae are newly recorded from the Zanzibar Island (Unguja): Bombycopsis C. \& R. Felder, 1874 with Bombycopsis nigrovittata Aurivillius, 1927; Pallastica Zolotuhin \& Gurkovich, 2009 with an unidentified species; Dollmania Tams, 1930 with an unidentified species; Mallocampa Aurivillius, 1902 with Mallocampa leighi Aurivillius, 1922; Eucraera Tams, 1930 with Eucraera witti Prozorov, 2016; Philotherma M\öschler, 1887 with Philotherma montibia Strand, 1912; and Odontopacha Aurivillius, 1909 with Odontopacha fenestrata Aurivillius, 1909. The species are followed with taxonomic notes updating the status and distribution of the taxa. Bombycopsis nigrovittata is shown to have the maximum p-distance of 0.3\% in cytochrome c oxidase I from Bombycopsis pallida Joannou \& Kr\üger, 2009. Two specimens of Pallastica sp. from Zanzibar are different in wing coloration but identical genetically, both are 0.8\–1.2\% far from sequenced specimens collected in southern Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe and altogether 3.0\–3.8\% far from the Zambian and Malawian populations considered to be Pallastica pallens (Bethune-Baker, 1908). The barcoding revealed two distinct lineages of Dollmania in Tanzania with a p-distance of 3.5\–3.7\% between them, neither can be attributed to either Dollmania marwitzi (Strand, 1913) or Dollmania reussi (Strand, 1913) until the primary\  types or fresh topotypes are sequenced. The species Ph. montibia is taken out from the synonymy to Philotherma rosa (Druce, 1887) and is stated to be a bona species because of the difference in wing pattern and p-distance of 5.7\–5.9\%. A new species of the genus Odontopacha\—Odontopacha dargei sp. n.\—is described from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania where it occurs sympatrically with O. fenestrata. It differs from O. fenestrata by the paler coloration with the spotted external fascia on both wings and a p-distance of 3.04\–3.65\%. Lectotypes for D. marwitzi and Ph. montibia are established. Mallocampa leighi is recorded from Tanzania for the first time. Females of Chrysopsyche lutulenta Tams, 1923 earlier recorded from Zanzibar Island are figured and the species is recorded from DRC for the first time.\"

}, keywords = {BARCODING, BOMBYCOPSIS, CATALOGUE, CHRYSOPSYCHE, COI, DOLLMANIA, EUCRAERA, FEMALE GENITALIA, LASIOCAMPIDAE, MALE GENITALIA, MALLOCAMPA, MTDNA, NEIGHBOR-JOINING, ODONTOPACHA, PALLASTICA, PHILOTHERMA, TANZANIA, ZANZIBAR}, url = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5311.3.6}, author = {Prozorov, A.M. and Prozorova, T.A. and Spitsyn, V.M. and Spitsyna, E.A. and Kondakov, A.V. and Soboleva, A.A. and Volkova, J.S. and Yakovlev, R.V. and Saldaitis, A. and Sulak, H. and Revay, E.E. and M{\"u}ller, G.C.} } @article {22989, title = {Notes on Streblote (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae) from the Malay Archipelago with two new species description}, journal = {Ecologica Montenegrina}, volume = {58}, year = {2022}, month = {10/2022}, pages = {14-28}, chapter = {14}, abstract = {

\"The article updates the status of the three valid taxa of the genus Streblote H\übner, 1820 from the Malay Archipelago. The species Streblote castanea (Swinhoe, 1892) was described from an unstated location in the Philippines. Presently this species is recorded from 8 major Philippine islands: Cebu, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Palawan, Panay, and Samar. The three populations from Luzon, Mindoro, and Negros have pairwise distances ranging from 2.45 to 3.92\%. Genetic distance together with geographic isolation is enough to treat the populations as separate species, but the description of new Philippine taxa is not possible until the island of the origin of S. castanea is designated. To locate the species origin and to understand relationships to other populations, the type specimen has to be barcoded. The species Streblote dorsalis (Walker, 1866) from Borneo is similar morphologically to S. castanea. It has to be sequenced as well to understand its relationship with the Philippine species and with geographically and morphologically close populations from the islands Belitung and Sulawesi. The taxon Streblote pallida (Rothschild, 1915) from Java and Bali was earlier attributed as a subspecies to S. castanea and then to S. dorsalis. It is raised here to a bona species because of its wing pattern distinct from the two species, it has an average pairwise distance of 5.15\% from S. castanea. Two populations from the neighboring Sumatra, Flores and Sumba are described as new species Streblote gerry sp. n. and Streblote jacquie sp. n. Streblote pallida and S. jacquie sp. n. have a pairwise distance of up to 2.45\%.\"

}, keywords = {BALI, BARCODING, CATALOGUE, COI, FEMALE GENITALIA, FLORES, INDONESIA, JAVA, LASIOCAMPIDAE, LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS, MALE GENITALIA, NEIGHBOR-JOINING, PHILIPPINES, STREBLOTE, SUMATRA, SUMBA}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2022.58.2}, author = {Prozorov, A.M. and Prozorova, T.A. and Spitsyn, V.M. and Spitsyna, E.A. and Volkova, J.S. and Yakovlev, R.V. and Meier, J. and Saldaitis, A. and Revay, E.E. and M{\"u}ller, G.C.} }