New data on the Pterophoridae fauna of Liberia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.2.13
• Publication Date: 2017-03-27T00:45:22Z
• Authors: PETR USTJUZHANIN; VASILY KOVTUNOVICH; SZABOLCS SÁFIÁN
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; Insecta; Arthropoda; Biodiversity; Moths; 15. Life on land; Liberia; Lepidoptera; 03 medical and health sciences; 13. Climate action; Animalia; Pterophoridae; Animals; Taxonomy

There have been no special studies on plume moths of Liberia until recently. In the World Catalogue of Insects (Gielis 2003) only two species are reported from Liberia: Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847) and Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius, 1794) despite its well-known richness for other Lepidoptera groups (Fox et al. 1965, Larsen 2005) and its biogeographic position in the centre of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000).