Review of the African golden-spotted genera Haplopacha and Dasychirinula (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Poecilocampinae)

• Main Authors: Tujuba, Tesfu Fekensa, Yakovlev, Roman V., Saldaitis, Aidas, Sulak, Harald, Aarvik, Leif, Murphy, Raymond J., Volkova, Julia S., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E., Müller, Günter C., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Prozorov, Alexey M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Altai State University 2024
• Subjects: Afrotropical realm; biodiversity; lappet moth; new genus; new species; new synonymy; Sibirica
• Online Access: http://journal.asu.ru/biol/article/view/15594; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12787215

African golden-spotted lappet moths from the genera Haplopacha Aurivillius, 1905 and Dasychirinula Hering, 1926 are reviewed. Antennae, heads and legs are investigated in addition to the traditional comparison of habitus, genitalia, and distribution areas. Two new genera are established and four newspecies are described as a result: Eudoumbia gen. n. with the type-species Eudoumbia thorogood sp. n. from Angola, Namibia, and Botswana; Auripluvia gen. n. with the type species Auripluvia sophia sp. n. from Ethiopia; Haplopacha mason sp. n. from Tanzania; and Dasychirinula julia sp. n. from Ethiopia. One species is reattributed to the new genus as Eudoumbia ndoumoi (Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016) stat. n. One new synonymy is established for two Tanzanian species: Dasychirinula chrysogramma Hering, 1926 = Haplopacha lunata Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 syn. n.; and one potential synonymy is remarked between Haplopacha tangani Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 from Tanzania and Malawi and Haplopacha riftensis Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 from Malawi. Photos of the related material stored in the main collections of Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, RSA) and Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) are showed.