Meganola diagrapha Hacker, 2012

Meganola diagrapha Hacker, 2012 View in CoL

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Meganola diagrapha Hacker, 2012 View in CoL , Esperiana 17: 463. TL: Burkina Faso, Folonzo. Holotype, male, in coll. ZSM.

Synonymy.

Meganola chromatographa Hacker, 2012 View in CoL syn. n., Esperiana 17: 466. TL: Burkina Faso, Folonzo. Holotype, female, in coll. ZSM.

Meganola kakamega Hacker, 2012 View in CoL syn. n., Esperiana 17: 387. TL: Kenya, Kakamega forest. Holotype, male, in coll. ZSM.

Material examined (all in coll. ANHRT).

Côte d’Ivoire. 2 males, 1 female, Mt. Tonkoui Peak , 1171m, 07°27'15.2"N, 07°38'12.5"W, 19– 27.xi.2019, actinic, LepiLED and MV light trap, leg. Aristophanous, M., Dérozier, V., Moretto, P., Ouattara, S. GoogleMaps , gen. slide Nos : LGNA 1149, LGNA 1592 (males), LGNA 1566 (female) . Guinea. 6 males, 4 females, Guinee Forestiere Monts Nimba UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mont Richard Molard camp and ridge (High-Altitude Grassland & Forest), 1400–1752m, 07°36'19"N, 08°25'30"W, 1–7.vii.2019, 250W blended bulb light trap, leg. Dérozier, V., Miles, W., Sáfián, Sz. GoogleMaps , gen. slide Nos : LGNA 1289, LGNA 1547, LGNA 1565 (males), LGNA 1283, LGNA 1164, LGNA 1165, LGNA 1550 (females) ; 3 males, 1 female, Guinee Forestiere, Bossou Forest and Institut de Recherche Environmentale de Bossou ( Lowland Forest-Farmland ), 690m, 07°38'32"N, 08°30'30"W, 24–30.vi.2019, MV and 8W UV Cold Cathode light trap, leg. Dérozier, V., Suah Dore, J., Koivagui, S., Miles, W., Sáfián, S., Warner, R. GoogleMaps ; 2 males, 1 female, 619km ESE of Conakry, Nzerekore Region, Prefecture de Lola, Ziela env., 540–600m, x.2017, 7°42'N, 8°21'W, leg. local collectors, gen. slide No.: LGNA 1757 (female) GoogleMaps . Liberia. 883m, Lofa County, Wologizi Mts, Ridge Camp 2, 8°07'20.79"N, 9°56'50.75"W, 22–30.xi.2018, Cold Cathode UV (8W) and blended bulb (250W) light trap, leg. Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G. GoogleMaps , gen. slide Nos : LGNA 1201 (male), LGNA 1282, LGNA 978 (females) ; 1 female, Nimba County, Nimba Mts, ENNR, Cellcom road, 750m, 7°33'3.78"N, 8°31'46.49"W, 16–28.xii.2018, Cold Cathode UV light trap (8W), leg. Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G. GoogleMaps

Genetic information. This species has been assigned the BIN URI: BOLD AAP8748. The intraspecific divergence calculated from seven samples is 0.00%. The morphologically closest taxa are M. saotomeana sp. n., M. bispermutata cryptochra , and M. bispermutata bispermutata , diverging by 2.02– 2.19%, 2.82–2.99% and 2.81–3.34%, respectively. The externally highly similar M. pachygrapha diverges by 4.42–4.77%.

Taxonomic notes. Meganola kakamega has been synonymized with M. bispermutata by László & Vetina (2019). However, the examination of extensive material from Central Africa suggests that the Kakamega population, which resembles M. bispermutata , is more likely to belong to the western-central African species M. diagrapha .

Meganola chromatographa View in CoL was described based on two female specimens from Burkina Faso. The characteristics of these specimens closely match those of the male types of M. diagrapha View in CoL , which were also collected in Burkina Faso. Additionally, the female illustrated by Hacker et al. (2012) as M. diagrapha View in CoL is actually M. dicranographa Hacker, 2012 View in CoL . Therefore, the female specimens representing M. chromatographa View in CoL syn. n. are now considered conspecific with M. diagrapha View in CoL .

Distribution. This species was earlier published from Burkina Faso (type locality) and Kenya- Kakamega (as M. kakamega ) ( Hacker et al. 2012). The specimens from Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea and Liberia represent new country records.