Afrocerura cameroona
Creators: name: Mulvaney, Lydia R. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Afrocerura
Afrocerura cameroona

description: Afrocerura cameroona (Bethune-Baker, 1927)
(Figs 8, 26‒31, genitalia Figs 39‒41)
Cerura argentina Schultze, 1916: 70 (preocc.).
Cerura cameroona Bethune-Baker, 1927: 328.
Cerura argentata Gaede 1934: 46 (nom. nov.).
Cerurina argentata (Gaede, 1934): Kiriakoff, 1963: 208. Afrocerura cameroona (Talbot [sic], 1927): Kiriakoff, 1963: 215.
Cerurina marshalli argentata (Gaede, 1934): Schintlmeister &Witt, 2015: 32.
Afrocerura argentata (Gaede, 1934): comb. nov., syn. nov.
Name bearing types:
Holotype ♀ (Fig. 27): “// Cameroona / B- B // Bitye, 2000 ft. / Ja River / Cameroons / G.L. Bates // Type. [circular label with turquoise above and below and text and a horizontal white band] // Photo done by A. SCHINTLMEISTER / #9.672 [yellow label] //” (NHMUK).
Cerura argentina. Schultze, 1916
Syntype ♀, (Fig. 30): “// Süd- Kamerun, / Molundu. / Dr. Arnold Schultze / e. l. leg. 26.XI.1910 // Cerura argentina / Schultze [handwritten] / Dr. Arn. Schultze ♀ / determ. 1916 [rectangular red bordered label] // Photo done by / A. SCHINTLMEISTER / #25.097 //” (ZMHB).
Syntype ♂, (Fig. 31): “// Typus [rectangular red label with thin black border] // Cerura / argentina Arn. / Schultze [handwritten] // Süd-Kamerun, / Molundu. / Dr. Arnold Schultze / leg. 17‒22.XII.1910 // Photo done by / A. SCHINTLMEISTER / #19.981 //” (ZMHB).
Additional material examined: (all ANHRT)
GABON. 1♂ – Ogooué Ivindo, National Park, Ivindo – Station de Recherche d’Ipassa, 450 m, 0°30′43″N, 12°48′12″E, 14‒26.vi.2016, MV Light Trap, leg. Ruzzier, E. & Tasane, T., ANHRT:2017.19, ANHRTUK00044930, ANHRT GEN. SLIDE NO. 00521 ♂. ZAMBIA. 1♂, 1♀ – 1191 m, Kasanka River pontoon, Kasanka National Park, 12°34′23″S, 30°14′05″E, 2‒4.xii.2012, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.7, unique numbers ANHRTUK00050395 and ANHRTUK00050396; 1♂ – 1400 m, Hillwood, Ikelenge, 11°16′02″S, 24°18′59″E, 21‒28.x.2013, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R., Takano, H., Chmurova, L. & Smith, L., ANHRT:2017.10, ANHRTUK00073571, Gen. slide No. LG5359 ♂; 1♂ – 1080 m, Mayukuyuku, Kafue National Park, 14°54′55″S, 26°03′47″E, 9‒11.iv.2014, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R., Takano, H., Chmurova, L. & Smith, L., ANHRT:2017.11, ANHRTUK00081592, ANHRT GEN. SLIDE NO. 00522 ♂; 1♀ – 1179 m, Greystone, Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, 12°55′50″S, 28°14′29″E, 17‒18.xi.2014, MV Light Trap, leg. Smith, R. & Takano, H., ANHRT:2017.12, ANHRTUK00081593, ANHRT GEN. SLIDE NO. 00523 ♀.
Remarks
Schintlmeister & Witt (2015) reinstated the taxon argentata as the West African subspecies of C. marshalli. Upon examination of specimens in ANHRT collected near the type locality of argentata, the taxon was found not to be conspecific with C. marshalli, but belonging instead to the genus Afrocerura. The ANHRT specimen from Gabon was compared to the syntypes of argentata and to the holotype of A. cameroona, and the following conclusions were drawn: all specimens were collected in similar lowland forest environments in close proximity to one another (see map in Fig. 48) and all specimens are phenotypically identical. Therefore all of these specimens are considered to be conspecific and consequently, argentata is synonymised with cameroona.
Kiriakoff (1963) erroneously refers to Talbot as the author of cameroona, the correct author being Bethune-Baker.
description: Published as part of Mulvaney, Lydia R. J., 2021, Notes on the life history and taxonomy of Cerurina marshalli (Noctuoidea: Notodontidae: Cerurinae), pp. 1-12 in Metamorphosis 32 (1) on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.4314/met.v32i1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14118452