Teragra Walker, 1855

Mey, Wolfram, 2024, New records of Metarbelidae from Namibia and description of a new species from the Great Escarpment (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea), Metamorphosis 35, pp. 25-30 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.4314/met.v35i1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4741E842-B635-4363-9BFD-035869F02637

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03842C39-6E39-817B-FC88-F9A0D3F65116

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Teragra Walker, 1855
status

 

Teragra Walker, 1855 View in CoL

T. cammae Lehmann, 2007 View in CoL – (Brandberg Mt.) T. macroptera Mey, 2011 – (Windhoek) Female and biology: unknown.

Remarks. In external appearance and size the new species resembles M. naumanni Mey, 2005 . The diagnostic and readily observable difference between the two species is the brown ground colour of forewings of M. naumanni ( Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ) which contrasts with the beige wings of M. dietermeyi sp. nov. (Figs. 10, 11, 12). Some small

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Metarbelidae

Loc

Teragra Walker, 1855

Mey, Wolfram 2024
2024
Loc

T. macroptera

Mey 2011
2011
Loc

T. cammae

Lehmann 2007
2007
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