Yakovlev R.V.1, Witt Th.2 2019. Review of genus Afrikanetz Yakovlev, 2009 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) with descriptions of four new species and establishment of new combination for Coryphodema zimbabwensis Mey, 2017 and Camellocossus austrorum Mey, 2017 // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.28. No.3. P.317–322 [in English].

1 Altai State University, Lenina pr. 61, RF-656049 Barnaul, Russia. E-mail: yakovlev_asu@mail.ru

2 Museum Witt, Tengstrasse 33, D-80796 Munich, Germany (deceased).

doi: 10.15298/rusentj.28.3.11

ABSTRACT. The article gives an illustrated catalog of the genus Afrikanetz Yakovlev, 2009 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae), including nine species. New combinations, Afrikanetz zimbabwensis (Mey, 2017) comb.n. and Afrikanetz austrorum (Mey, 2017) comb.n. are given. The study also describes four new species: Afrikanetz dargei Yakovlev, sp.n. from Tanzania, Afrikanetz hoppei Yakovlev, sp.n. from Equatorial Guinea, Afrikanetz ugandensis, Yakovlev sp.n. from Uganda, and Afrikanetz witti Yakovlev, sp.n. from Kenya. The distribution map and descriptions of female genitalia (A. ugandensis) are given for the first time.

KEY WORDS. Cossidae, Afrotropical Region, new species, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Guinea Equatorial, fauna, taxonomy.

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