Vavizola hela – new species and genus of Afrotropic Lasiocampini (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae)
Ecologica Montenegrina, Volume 62, Year 2023
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A new genus Vavizola gen. n. and a new species Vavizola hela sp. n. are described from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They belong to the former so-called “Pachypasa sensu lato” group. Morphology of the new genus is compared with 5 other genera from the group and the full-length sequences of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) are compared with 9 genera from the group, both confirm the description.