Dollmania reggie Prozorov, Saldaitis, Prozorova, Yakovlev, Volkova, Sulak, Tujuba, Revay & Müller, 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Prozorov, Alexey M.
name: Saldaitis, Aidas
name: Tatianaa. Prozorova
name: V. Yakovlev, Roman
name: Volkova, Julia S.
name: Sulak, Harald
name: Tujuba, Tesfu Fekensa
name: Revay, Edita E.
name: Müller, Günter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lasiocampidae
Dollmania
Dollmania reggie

description: Dollmania reggie sp. n.
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(Figs 4–7, 25–26, 35–37, 45–46, 54)
Holotype: ♂, southwestern Somalia, Middle Juba, Caanoole, 2.02444N, 42.32166E, 165 m, 17.IV.1988, leg. H. Politzar, GS 09-014 (ex coll. Kuchler, CGM / USTTB). Paratypes, southwestern Somalia (5♂, 5♀, ex coll. Kuchler, CGM / USTTB): same data as HT but 4.IV.1983, 14.II.1988, 17.IV.1988, 30.I.1989, 17.IV.89, leg. H. Politzar, GS 2012-017, 2012-018, LAS-10-099.
Description. Male (Figs 4–7). Flagellum covered with creamy or brown scales, rami brown. Head and prothorax creamy or brown, mesothorax brown with creamy or purplish brown tegula. Abdomen pale creamy or brown. Forewing. Forewing length: 23–25 mm; wingspan: 44–47 mm. Somewhat oval, elongated. Ground color creamy or reddish brown. Pattern consist of more or less pronounced triple wavy blurred dark antemedial and postmedial lines of purplish, green and brown colors, c-shaped creamy discal mark with dark brown contour and dark brown and creamy wavy external line. Fringe dark brown. Hindwing. Oval. Ground color brown, blurred dark medial and external lines or anal field may be pronounced. Fringe creamy or brown. Genitalia (Figs 25–26). Tegumen a narrow band; dorsolaterally bears a pair of socii. Socii elongated, triangle, ventrally more sclerotized, covered with setae. Vinculum a narrow band with laterodistal somewhat oval outgrowths. Cucullus elongated, finger like, c-shaped with rather pointed apex, basally covered with setae, dorsal margin indented. Sacculus very compact, somewhat oval, covered with setae. Juxta stem-like, fused with aedeagus. Aedeagus claw shaped without basal apodemes. Vesica very short but broad, covered with minute cornuti. The eighth sternite somewhat trapezoid with elongated apodemes, distal margin concave, more sclerotized, indented. The eight tergite somewhat trapezoid with barely pronounced apodemes. Female (Figs 35–37). Overall similar to male, but larger in size and no pale specimen is known. Forewing length: 28–38 mm; wingspan: 54–70 mm. Genitalia (Figs 45–46). Papillae anales oval, densely covered with setae. Posterior apophyses slightly longer than the anterior ones. Sterigma a highly sclerotized complex structure with a slit-like opening. Ostium amorphous. Ductus bursae short, ventrally sclerotized, the sclerotization extend to corpus bursae. Corpus bursae oval, bears aggregation of small signa.
Variability. Specimen may be creamy (Fig. 4) or reddish brown (Figs 5–7). Distal indents of the eighth sternite may be blunt (Fig. 25) or pointed (Fig. 26). Parts of sterigma and signa vary in shape (Figs 45–46).
Diagnosis. Adults of D. reggie sp. n. have less contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 4–7, 35–37), females have different shape of sterigma and smaller signa (Figs 45–46), known only from Somalia (Fig. 54); whereas adults of D. flavia have more contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 8–11, 31–32), female have larger signa (Figs 49–50), known from only from southern Kenya (Fig. 54).
Adults of D. reggie sp. n. may be overall smaller, have less contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 4–7, 35–37), females have different shape of sterigma (Figs 45–46), known only from Somalia (Fig. 54); whereas adult males of D. reussi or D. marwitzi are overall larger, have more contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 12–15, 41–42), females have different shape of sterigma (Figs 47–48), known from Kenya and Tanzania (Fig. 54).
Adults of D. reggie sp. n. may be overall smaller and have less contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 4–7, 35–37), females have different shape of sterigma (Figs 45–46), known only from Somalia (Fig. 54); whereas adult males of D. cuprea may be overall larger and have more contrasting forewing pattern (Figs 16–20, 43–44), shape of sterigma may vary in female genitalia (Figs 51–52), known from RSA, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and DRC (Fig. 55).
Adult males of D. reggie sp. n. are smaller and paler with less contrasting medial lines (Figs 4–7), have elongated socii, c-shaped valvae, narrower extensions of vinculum, elongated apodemes of the eight sternite (Figs 25–26), known from Somalia only (Fig. 54); whereas adult males of D. lola sp. n. are larger and overall darker with more contrasting medial lines (Figs 1–3), have shorter socii, slightly c-shaped cucullus, broader extensions of vinculum, short apodemes of the eighth sternite (Figs 21, 23–24), distributed in West Africa (Fig. 53).
Distribution (Fig. 54). Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets in southwestern Somalia.
Biology. Adults were collected in January, February, April, and May from an altitude of 165 meters a.s.l. Preimaginal stages are unknown.
Etymology. The species is named in honor of Reggie James Wolff (Los Angeles, USA).
description: Published as part of Prozorov, Alexey M., Saldaitis, Aidas, Tatianaa. Prozorova, V. Yakovlev, Roman, Volkova, Julia S., Sulak, Harald, Tujuba, Tesfu Fekensa, Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C., 2024, Description of two new species of the genus Dollmania (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae), pp. 55-71 in Zootaxa 5493 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13269159