Hypotrabala obscura Takano & László, 2024

Hypotrabala obscura Takano & László, 2024 View in CoL

https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7BC257AD-9F90-4600-A3FB-24BAA861F80D

( Figs 12–13 View Figures 8–14 , 19–20 View Figures 15–21 )

Examined material: ♀, “ Cameroon, Centre, Mengueme , 2005 07 01-20,” [3.23617, 11.39701, 650 m], GS 13446 ( CGM / USTTB) GoogleMaps .

Description of the female ( Fig. 13 View Figures 8–14 ). Flagellum, head and thorax covered with dark brown scales. Abdomen light brown. Forewing. Forewing length: 28 mm. Somewhat lanceolate with slightly wavy outer margin and protruded rounded apex. Basal, medial, and outer fields divided with blurred crenulated doubled dark brown medial lines, medial field has reniform dark brown discal spot, basal field darker colored. Outer field medially divided with faint crenulated line. Fringe speckled dark and light brown. Hindwing. Somewhat trapezoid with slightly wavy outer margin. Brown with dark brown costal field. Genitalia ( Fig. 20 View Figures 15–21 ). Papillae anales oval, densely covered with chaetae. Posterior apophyses about twice longer than anterior ones. Sterigma oval with long sclerotized laterobasal outgrowths, medially bearing a downward opening ostium. Ductus bursae very short. Corpus bursae ovoid with dorsal signum that is a sclerotized c-shaped stripe with dentated apices.

Distribution. Northwest Congolian lowland forests in Cameroon (new record), and Congolian coastal forests in Gabon.

Acknowledgments

We thank †John Rawlins, Kevin Keegan (CMNH), and †Ugo Dall’Asta (RMCA) for providing access to the material and helping to process it. A portion of the presented work was done by Alexey Prozorov with the financial support of the Thomas-Witt-Stiftung.

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