Anapisa holobrunnea Talbot
Creators: name: Przybyłowicz, Łukasz
name: Bąkowski, Marek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Anapisa
Anapisa holobrunnea

description: Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot)
(Fig. 1)
Apisa holobrunnea Talbot, 1932. Bull. Hill Mus. 4: 174.
Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963. Mem. de l’Inst. Fran. d’Afrique Noire 66: 402, syn. nov.
Material examined. Holotype of A. monotonia 3, [blue rectangular label] “I.F.A.N., NIMBA (Guinée), Lamotte et Roy, VII · XII [19]51” (MNHN). Syntypes of A. holobrunnea 2 3, Massadou, Nr. Macenta, 1600 ft, 13–17.v.26; French Guinea, C. L. Collenette (BMNH); Additional material: 2 3 Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve; 24–30.VIII.2006 (AMU, ISEA); 4 3 Mamang River Forest Reserve; 31.VIII. – 04.IX.2006 (AMU, ISEA).
Distribution. New for Ghana. Until now known only from south Guinea: Mt. Nimba and Macenta near Massadou. New data from Ghana (Figs 1 G–I) suggest that the species is wider distributed across Western Equatorial Africa.
Description. Male genitalia (Figs 1 H–I) (Ghana, gs - S135, ISEA) Uncus directed ventrally, moderately elongated, flattened distally, dully pointed terminally; basal portion latero-ventrally with elongate setae. Tegumen large with two lateral ventrally directed pointed processes beneath uncus. Saccus large, broad, fused with vinculum in one conspicuous plate expanded laterally towards tegumen. Pedunculus and vinculum widely fused forming together with tegumen and saccus-vinculum complex a wide, sclerotized ring surrounding phallus. Valva reduced, consisting of two processes: one pointed towards tip, second club-like. Phallus short, wide; vesica with two prominent, sclerotized, elongated sacks pointed terminally, covered with numerous, short setae. For comparison a sketch of the male genitalia of the holotype of A. monotonia is provided in Fig. 1 J (gs – P75, MNHN). The female remains unknown.
Remarks. Anapisa monotonia (Figs 1 D–F, J) was described from Mt. Nimba in Guinea based on a single male collected at light at Ziéla (550 m a.s.l.). Examination of the type deposited in MNHN revealed that the specimen is conspecific with Apisa holobrunnea (Figs 1 A–C) described 31 years earlier by Talbot. His description is very short but comprehensively points out all diagnostic characters of the species. Therefore, an additional redescription of the imago habitus is unnecessary. The male genitalia, however, were neither depicted nor described before, although one of the two syntypes of A. holobrunnea deposited in BMNH has been dissected by Kiriakoff. The genitalia of this specimen bear laterally, beneath the uncus, two ventrally directed pointed processes which correspond with the same structures found both in the type of A. monotonia and the specimens from Ghana. The processes on the illustrated genitalia are oriented upwards and therefore they are not easily visible – their location is indicated by black arrows (Fig. 1 H).
description: Published as part of Przybyłowicz, Łukasz & Bąkowski, Marek, 2011, Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963 – a junior synonym of Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana, pp. 54-60 in Zootaxa 3031 on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206669