Leptometa cynthia, Buttafuoco & Müller & Revay & Traore & Sulak & Saldaitis & Yakovlev & Volkova & Prozorova & Prozorov, 2024

Leptometa cynthia View in CoL sp. n.

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( Figs 4 View Figures 1–5 –6, 8)

Holotype: ♂, “ DR CONGO, Mai- Ndombe / Salonga NP, Ekongo camp / 02°45’23.09”S, 20°18’55.37”E, / January, 2018, leg. A., T. / Prozorovs, V. Kravchenko et al.,” GS 0114 ( CGM / USTTB). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 6♂, same data as HT, but December 2017, June 2018 ( CGM / USTTB) ; 4♂, “ DRC, Kasaï-Occidental / NE Ilebo and Kasaï River / moist broadleaved forest / savanna mosaic, XII.1997 ” ( CGM / USTTB) ; 2♂, “Zaïre Orientale / Sud Kisangani / Mai 1991 ” ( CDB) .

Description. Male ( Figs 4 View Figures 1–5 –6). Flagellum, head and thorax covered with speckled brown and straw-colored scales. Abdomen dorsally yellow with black transversal stripes. Forewing. Length: 18.5– 20 mm. Elongated, somewhat oval with smooth outer margin and rounded apex. Covered with brown and straw-colored scales; slightly wavy brown medial lines and blackish discal dot pronounced. Fringe speckled brown and straw-colored. Hindwing. Somewhat oval with slightly wavy outer margin. Covered with brown scales, getting darker between veins. Fringe brown. Genitalia ( Fig. 8 View Figures 7–8 ). Tegumen helmetlike without outgrowths. Socii mitten-like, the dorsal ridge is more sclerotized, loosely covered with setae. Valvae short, finger-shaped, basally widened and fused with juxta. Juxta an oval plate surrounding aedeagus. Aedeagus claw-like with tiny vesica everting dorsolaterally. Vinculum medially split into a pair of elongated somewhat triangular projections. The eighth sternite is trapezoid with the dentated caudal margin and elongated apodemes. Female remains unknown.

Diagnosis. Leptometa cynthia sp. n. differs from L. sapelensis with dark-colored hindwings (compare Figs 4–5 and 1–3 View Figures 1–5 ); lacking dorsolateral outgrowths of vinculum (compare Figs 8 and 7 View Figures 7–8 ).

Distribution. Central Congolian lowland forests in Mali.

Biology. Adults were collected in December–January and May–June from altitudes of 350– 450 m. Preimaginal stages unknown.

Etymology. This species is named in honor of the senior author’s beloved wife of 45 years, Cynthia A. Buttafuoco, who has let him indulge his strange pastimes, unusual interests and strong passion for collecting. Together they try to make the world a better place.

Acknowledgments

We are thankful to †Vasiliy D. Kravchenko (Tel Aviv University, Israel) for preliminary work in the Ekongo camp in March and April of 2017: setting up most traps, training local workers, and taking care of material under harsh conditions. We express our gratitude to the LuiKotale Bonobo Project leaders Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann for their help with the general curating of the insect collection from the project in Ekongo. A heartfelt thank you to LuiKotale and Ekongo camp managers Roman Keller and Alexis Louat who helped to organize, manage and maintain the daily work efforts in the camp. We appreciate the irreplaceable help of the Bekombo village people with collecting, sorting, packing, and transporting insects from Ekongo as well as with the daily routine in the camp.

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