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            <p> Vansoniella gen. n.</p>
            <p>Type species.</p>
            <p> V. chirindensis sp. n. </p>
            <p>Gender.</p>
            <p>feminine.</p>
            <p>Systematic position.</p>
            <p> Limacodidae ,  Limacodinae . </p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
            <p>Description.</p>
            <p> see description of  V. chirindensis sp. n. </p>
            <p>Diagnosis.</p>
            <p>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 R3+4+5 on common stalk, areole absent; hindwing with RR+M1 as long fork, M3+Cu1a 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.</p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4466C816C634FABAB497651B56D123B1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mey, Wolfram	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.text	660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Vansoniella chirindensis Mey 2018	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Vansoniella chirindensis sp. n.</p>
            <p>Material examined.</p>
            <p> 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)</p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p>The specific epithet is derived from the collecting site of the holotype, Chirinda on Mount Selinda.</p>
            <p>Description.</p>
            <p>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, R2+3+4+5 stalked from upper corner of cell, A1+2 without distinct basal loop; hindwing with frenular bristle, R+M1 and M3+Cu1a shortly stalked, anal field densely covered by long, dark brown scales. Abdomen dark brown, tergum VIII with short, quadrangular plate on apical margin.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
            <p>Female: unknown.</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Remarks.</p>
            <p> Janse (1964) was not able to examine himself all species known at that time. But he included the information provided by other authors in his revisionary work (e.g. West 1937). In addition, after 1964 a number of further species of  Limacodidae was described from Africa (Carcasson 1965, Pinhey 1968, Rougeot 1977, Viette 1980). They are fully scaled and not related to  Vansoniella gen. n., with the exception of males of  Latoia pumilus (Hering, 1957) and  L. heringi (Viette, 1965) from Madagascar which exhibit some resemblance by the presence of hyaline patches on the forewings, but other characters as antennal structure and wing venation indicate that this resemblance is due to convergence. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/660CBA68B93B473A4D6470C221E4EB8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mey, Wolfram	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
