Dinometa
(Redirected from Dinometa maputuana)
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| Genus: | Dinometa Aurivillius, 1927
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Dinometa is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. It was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927, containing at the time only the species Dinometa maputuana, originally described by Wichgraf in 1906 as Gastroplakaeis maputuana.[1][2] Two additional species, Dinometa abigailae and Dinometa ethani, were described in 2024 by Alexey Prozorov et al.[3]
Species[edit]
- Dinometa abigailae Prozorov et al., 2024 – Kenya, Tanzania[3]
- Dinometa ethani Prozorov et al., 2024 – Tanzania[3]
- Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906) – Mozambique,[4] South Africa and Tanzania.[5][2]
References[edit]
- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W.; Goff, R. "Dinometa". Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 25 May 2024.
- ^ a b De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
- ^ a b c Prozorov, Alexey M.; Prozorova, Tatiana A.; Yakovlev, Roman V.; Volkova, Julia S.; Saldaitis, Aidas; Sulak, Harald; Revay, Edita & Müller, Günter C. 2024. Description of two new species of Dinometa from East Africa with remarks on D. maputuana (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae). Zootaxa 5397(4): 486—496. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.4.2
- ^ (in German) Wichgraf, F. (1913). "Eine neue äthiopische Limacodidae und anderes". Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben 7:13–14
- ^ "Taxonomy Browser: Dinometa maputuana". Barcode of Life Data System. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
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