Streblote gerry Prozorov & Prozorova & Spitsyn & Spitsyna & Volkova & Yakovlev & Meier & Saldaitis & Revay & Müller 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Prozorov, Alexey M.
name: Prozorova, Tatiana A.
name: Spitsyn, Vitaly M.
name: Spitsyna, Elizaveta A.
name: Volkova, Julia S.
name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Meier, Jürg
name: Saldaitis, Aidas
name: Revay, Edita E.
name: Müller, Günter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lasiocampidae
Streblote
Streblote gerry

description: Streblote gerry sp. n.
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(Figs 19–21, 27, 33, 38–40)
Type material. Holotype ♂, Indonesia, Sumatra, Aceh Province, 1916, leg. G. Herman, slide 2022 0094 (NBCL). Paratypes (2♀ total). Indonesia, Sumatra: ♀, Medan Deli, leg. Fulmek (NBCL); ♀, North Sumatra Province, Parapat, 19.VIII.1979, leg. E. Diehl (ZSM).
Description. Male (Fig. 20). Antenna orangish, flagellum covered with creamy speckled scales. Palpi orange. Eyes dark brown, naked. Head and thorax mesially creamy with dark dense speckles, tegulae reddish brown. Abdomen from reddish brown. Epiphysis on the fore leg absent. Forewing. Forewing length: 25 mm; wingspan: 51 mm. Triangular, apex acute, outer margin slightly waved. Background color reddish brown. Pattern consists of orangish basal spot, two pale waved medial lines, orangish eye-like spot in medial field with dark R-Cu vein and faded orangish fragmented external line. Cilia yellowish creamy. Hindwing. Trapezoid. Background color reddish brown with faded yellowish creamy medial line. Cilia creamy, gets darker on anal angle. Genitalia (Figs 27, 33). Similar to S. pallida (see above). Female (Figs 19, 21). Bigger, little paler and less contrasty than male. Antenna orangish, flagellum covered with creamy scales. Palpi orange. Eyes dark brown, naked. Head and thorax mesially creamy, tegulae orangish or reddish brown. Abdomen creamy or reddish brown. Forewing. Forewing length: 36–45 mm; wingspan: 70–90 mm. Oval-shaped, apex blunt, outer margin slightly waved. Background color reddish or orangish brown. Pattern consists of weakly pronounced orangish basal spot, two pale waved medial lines, weakly pronounced medial orangish eye-like spot and faded orangish fragmented external line. Cilia brownish. Hindwing. Egg-shaped. Background color reddish or orangish brown with more or less pronounced creamy medial line. Cilia brownish. Genitalia is not studied (both known females have broken abdomens, genitalia slides are not found).
Variability. Medial line on hind wing of female may be narrow (Fig. 21) or wider (Fig. 19), abdomen reddish brown (Fig. 19) or creamy (Fig. 21).
Diagnosis. The species is endemic to Sumatra. Male is darker than S. pallida from Java and Bali, and S. jacquie sp. n. from Flores and Sumba. No clear difference in male genitalia is found between S. pallida, S. jaquie sp. n., S. gerry sp. n., S. dorsalis, and S. castanea.
Distribution (Fig. 38). Sumatra.
Ecology. Adults were collected in August from the altitudes between 9 (Medan Deli) and 945 m (Parapat) within Sumatran lowland and montane rainforest ecoregions (Dinerstein et al., 2017).
Etymology. The species is named after Gerald “Gerry” Malcolm Durrell, a well- known naturalist and writer who inspires lots of people through decades to devote their lives to studying biology.
Taxonomic note. The species is not barcoded like S. pallida and S. jacquie sp. n., but darker coloration, isolated distribution on Sumatra within distinct ecoregions, and 2.45% distance between S. pallida and S. jacquie sp. n. let us suggest that the Sumatran population is also a separate species.
description: Published as part of Prozorov, Alexey M., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Volkova, Julia S., Yakovlev, Roman V., Meier, Jürg, Saldaitis, Aidas, Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C., 2022, Notes on Streblote (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae) from the Malay Archipelago with two new species description, pp. 14-28 in Ecologica Montenegrina 58 on pages 22-24, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.58.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8029468