taxonID	type	description	language	source
4466C816C634FABAB497651B56D123B1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The genus name was chosen to the memory of George van Son (1898 - 1967), former curator of Lepidoptera at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria and collector of the type species.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
4466C816C634FABAB497651B56D123B1.taxon	description	Description. see description of V. chirindensis sp. n.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
4466C816C634FABAB497651B56D123B1.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Small species with translucent wings resulting from sparse scaling and minute scales in upright position. Antenna bipectinate towards tip; epiphysis absent, spurs 0.2.2.; forewing with R 3 + 4 + 5 on common stalk, areole absent; hindwing with RR + M 1 as long fork, M 3 + Cu 1 a shortly stalked. Male genitalia beak-like uncus and hook-like gnathos; vinculum slender, long saccus present; valva triangular, with rounded hump on median side close to vinculum; juxta with pair of long, digitate processes and basal apophyses; apex of phallus with curved thorn and short, subapical spine.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype ♂, [Zimbabwe], " Chirinda For- / est, S. Rhod. XII / - 1937 G. van Son " [printed on white card], [20 ° 24 ' S 32 ° 41 ' E], genitalia slide Mey 85 / 17 (deposited in TMSA)	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the collecting site of the holotype, Chirinda on Mount Selinda.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E.taxon	description	Description. Adult male (Figs 7, 8): Length of forewing 7 mm, wing span 16 mm. Vertex of head with tuft of dark brown, shining, piliform scales projecting frontad between scapes; frons with appressed, downwardly directed, yellow scales; ocelli and chaetosemae absent; labial palpi short, porrect, with terminal segment not protruding beyond frontal scaling; scape and pedicellus short; antenna yellow-brown, bipectinate from base to tip, 52 pairs of rami, sparsely scaled dorsally and with numerous, short cilia on ventral sides. Thorax and tegulae dorsally with long, dark brown, shining scales; tibia of forelegs shorter than femur, epiphysis absent, tarsal segments of all legs without ventral spines, metatarsus with broad arolium and short pulvilli (Fig. 4), dorsal side of all legs with tufts of long scales, spurs 0.2.2.; forewings densely scaled on veins and in costal and anal fields, wing membrane with small, broad, short scales in upright position and widely spaced, multi-dentate at apex; scales on hindwing membrane smaller and mostly bi-dentate at apex; scales usually brown but yellow on bases of cubital and medial veins; fringes orange-brown with metallic shine. Forewing venation (Fig. 6) without areole, R 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 stalked from upper corner of cell, A 1 + 2 without distinct basal loop; hindwing with frenular bristle, R + M 1 and M 3 + Cu 1 a shortly stalked, anal field densely covered by long, dark brown scales. Abdomen dark brown, tergum VIII with short, quadrangular plate on apical margin. Male genitalia (Figs 1 - 3, 5): Tegumen and vinculum largely separate structures, interconnected in one point; lateral arms of vinculum slender, saccus large and broad; tegumen dorsally excised, separated from beak-like uncus by a small, membranous band; gnathos hook-like, preapical dorsal margin with minute den ticles; valva triangular, apex rounded, costal margin concave, inner side with a rounded hump on the basal dorsal corner close to vinculum; juxta large, covering the ventral and lateral sides of the phallus base and produced apically into a pair of finger-like processes bearing small dents on the tips, base of juxta with long and slightly curved apophyses, reaching into segment VIII; phallus tubular, longer than valva, apex with curved, dorsal process and short, subapical spine, directed ventrad; vesica without cornuti. Female: unknown.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The new species is known from the type locality only. The Chirinda Forest is an isolated patch of mountain forest on Mt. Selinda from about 1000 m to 1250 m elevation in East Zimbabwe (Fig. 9). The species may occur also in the Chimanimani Mts. north of the Chirinda Forest.	en	Mey, Wolfram (2018): Vansoniella chirindensis gen. n., sp. n. - an unusual taxon with translucent wings from Zimbabwe (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1): 75-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.23538
