Sauris mouliniei Legrand 1971, comb. n. ...

• Main Authors: Bolotov, Ivan N., Frolov, Artem A., Kolosova, Yulia S., Kondakov, Alexander V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Sauris; Sauris mouliniei; Arkhangelsk
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696332; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5696332

Sauris mouliniei (Legrand, 1971) comb. n. (Figs 1–7) Episteira mouliniei Legrand, 1971: 81; Gerlach & Matyot, 2006: 66. Episteria mouliniei Legrand, 1971 inadv. err.: 81, Fig. 1. Material examined. 1♂, “ Seychelles, Praslin Island; near the Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve [4 º20'00''S; 55º44'15''E]; ~ 170 m a.s.l.; mid-altitude forest dominated by the coco-de-mer palm (Lodoicea maldivica); on the trunk of endemic Seychelles tree Northea hornei; 5.1.2013, Bolotov leg.”. Deposited in the collection of Biological Museum of Institute of Ecological Problems of the North of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Arkhangelsk, Russia (IEPN). Description. Male morphology: forewing length 14 mm (Figs. 1–2). Forewing is large; apex angular; with termen cleft near tornus between veins CuA1 and A. Dorsum is winding, angular subtornally. The hindwing is small, not reaching the tornus of forewing, lobed marginally and folded between Sc+R and Rs+M1. The dorsal lobe is small (one fourth of the hindwing length), ... : Published as part of Bolotov, Ivan N., Frolov, Artem A., Kolosova, Yulia S. & Kondakov, Alexander V., 2014, The male of Sauris mouliniei (Legrand, 1971) comb. n. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Trichopterygini), an endemic Inner Seychelles moth, pp. 397-400 in Zootaxa 3765 (4) on pages 397-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/231208 ...