identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.text	4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Alucita anna Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich 2024	<div><p>Alucita anna Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich, sp. nov.</p> <p>https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: EB812C62-13D1-406A-B667-F4DB00728E87</p> <p>Figs 1–3</p> <p>Type material: Holotype male, (ZISP, gen.pr. Nr 1999). ETHIOPIA Southern Nations, Turmi, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=36.4969&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.9694" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 36.4969/lat 4.9694)">Emerald Lodge</a> 4.9694 N, 36.4969E, 915 m, 26−30. IV. 2012, R. Beck leg.</p> <p>External characters. Head with yellow hairs. Labial palpi 1.5 times longer than eye diameter in length, bent forward and up, like tusks. Antennae yellow, slightly serrated. Wingspan 19 mm. Wings color light-brown. Series of elongated brown spots along costal edge of fore wing. Other lobes of all wings with elongated brown portions alternating with light yellowish portions. Fringe on wings light-yellow. Legs pale-yellow.</p> <p>Male genitalia. Uncus distally extended, apically with oval notch. Gnathos long, lanceolate, slightly narrowing to apex, equal to uncus in length. Gnathos arms short. Valves quite short, basally extended, smoothly narrowing to apex, poorly sclerotized. Anellus arms equal to gnathos in length and width, apically bluntly rounded and bent inwards. Aedeagus thick, straight, slightly shorter than all genital fittings, with clusters of spiky cornuti located distally.</p> <p>Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. In the light-brown color of the wings, the new species is similar to Alucita rhaptica (Meyrick, 1920), but clearly differs in the male genital structure. In the shape of the valves, uncus and gnathos, it mostly resembles Alucita balioxantha (Meyrick, 1921), from which it differs in the less deep notch on the uncus tip, more narrow anellus arms, aedeagus slightly longer than all genital fittings, while in A.balioxantha the anellus arms are wider than gnathos, and the aedeagus is significantly shorter than all the genital fittings in length.</p> <p>Flight period. April.</p> <p>Distribution. Ethiopia.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named in honor of Anna Dulepinskaya (Novosibirsk region, Russia), the wife of the first author of this article.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Ustjuzhanin, Petr;Kovtunovich, Vasily;Prozorov, Alexey	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB4FF9AFF5DEE930D50F9BA.text	4611FA33FFB4FF9AFF5DEE930D50F9BA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Alucita malawica Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich 2016	<div><p>Alucita malawica Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich, 2016</p> <p>Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich, 2016a: 543 (Type locality: Nkhorongo, Malawi).</p> <p>Alucita meloui Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich, 2016b: 889. (Type locality: Diego Suarez,</p> <p>Madagascar) syn.nov.</p> <p>Alucita priona Bippus, 2020: 73. (Type locality: Réunion, La Possession) syn.nov.</p> <p>Material examined. 1 ♂ ETHIOPIA, Southern Nations, Arba Minch, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=37.5799&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.1796" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 37.5799/lat 6.1796)">Dorze Lodge</a>, 6.1796 N, 37.5799E, 2348 m, 20-23. IV. 2012, R. Beck leg.</p> <p>Distribution: Malawi, Madagascar, Reunion, Ethiopia (new species for Ethiopia).</p> <p>Note. We described the new species of many-plumed moth from Malawi and published in Zootaxa Journal in June 2016 (Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich 2016a), while the species A. meloui was described and published later, in December 2016, in Entomologicheskoe obozrenie Journal (Ustjuzhanin &amp; Kovtunovich 2016b). Comparing the external characters of the adults and genitals of A. malawica and A. meloui, we found their complete conspecificity, and as the description of A. malawica had been published before that of A. meloui, the latter becomes a synonym of it. The other species, A. priona, described from Reunion (Bippus 2020) as well as A. meloui is completely identical to A. malawica externally and in the genitals, so it becomes a synonym to the latter.</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>The authors are grateful to Robert Beck (Munich, Germany) for the materials provided for examination. We also express our gratitude to Anna Ustjuzhanina (Tomsk, Russia) for the language improvements and to Sergey Reshetnikov (Novosibirsk, Russia) for the photos of the adults.</p> <p>References</p> <p>Bippus, M. (2020) Records of Lepidoptera from the Malagasy region with description of new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Noctuidae, Alucitidae, Choreutidae, Euteliidae, Gelechiidae, Blastobasidae, Pterophoridae, Tonzidae, Tineidae, Praydidae, Cosmopterigidae, Batrachedridae). Phelsuma, 28, 60−100.</p> <p>De Prins, J. &amp; De Prins, W. (2011–2023) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). Available from: http://www.afromoths.net/ (accessed December 2023)</p> <p>Ustjuzhanin, P. &amp; Kovtunovich, V. (2016 a) The Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa, 4126 (4), 533–547. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.5</p> <p>Ustjuzhanin, P. &amp; Kovtunovich, V. (2016 b) Two New Species of the Many-Plumed Moth Genus Alucita Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Madagascar. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 95 (4), 889–891. [In Russian]</p> <p>Ustjuzhanin, P., Kovtunovich, V., Ustjuzhanina, A. (2018) New species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Tanzania. Zootaxa, 4438 (1), 167–175.</p> <p>https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.9</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4611FA33FFB4FF9AFF5DEE930D50F9BA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Ustjuzhanin, Petr;Kovtunovich, Vasily;Prozorov, Alexey	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
