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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ustjuzhanin, Peter
• Kovtunovich, Vasily
• Maicher, Vincent
• Sáfián, Szabolcs
• Delabye, Sylvain
• Streltzov, Alexander
• Tropek, Robert

Titel

Even hotter hotspot: description of seven new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Mount Cameroon

Ist Teil von

• ZooKeys, 2020-05, Vol.935 (1), p.103-119

Ort / Verlag

Pensoft Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mount Cameroon, SW Cameroon, has already been described as a unique hotspot of the many-plumed moth (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with their local diversity unrivalled in the entire Afrotropics. We confirm its importance with description of seven new species: Alucita bakweri Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , Alucita jana Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , Alucita bakingili Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , Alucita tatjana Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , Alucita zuza Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , Alucita deja Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. , and Alucita bokwango Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. These descriptions have raised the known local diversity of many-plumed moth species on Mount Cameroon to 22, i.e., over a quarter of the known Afrotropical biodiversity of this group. This study also emphasises the great conservation importance of the area.