Euclasta warreni Distant 1892
Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892 Euclasta warreni Distant, 1892. Distant (1892): 241. Type locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 20 GP 025; recordedBy: M. Seizmair; individualCount: 2; sex: male, female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: CMS; otherCatalogNumbers: 20 GP 027; occurrenceID: D4D0BAAA-E26A-5D99-A553-FD5CD23AE977; Location: country: Oman; stateProvince: Dhofar; locality: Jabal Samhan, Viewpoint; verbatimElevation: 1400 m; verbatimLatitude: 17 ° 6 ' 9.38 "; verbatimLongitude: 54 ° 41 ' 53.12 ''; Event: eventDate: 23 - XI- 2019 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 24 KSMA 005; recordedBy: Al Dhafer, H., Fadl, H., Abd Eldayem, M., El Torky, A., El Gharbawy, A., Soliman; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: KSMA; occurrenceID: 1EAB08D4-D977-5E3C-B98A-E896E7105153; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Al Baha; locality: Shada Al Ala; verbatimElevation: 1560 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 50 ' 19.74 ' ’; verbatimLongitude: 41 ° 18 ' 36.24 ' ’; Event: eventDate: 17 - X- 2014 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 24 KSMA 010; recordedBy: Al Dhafer, H., Fadl, H., Abd Eldayem, M., El Torky, A., El Gharbawy, A., Soliman; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: KSMA; occurrenceID: 9A283C22-0913-559F-83D7-47CFF6A2D197; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Al Baha; locality: Shada Al Ala; verbatimElevation: 1670 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 50 ' 34.5 ''; verbatimLongitude: 41 ° 18.691 ’; Event: eventDate: 27 - VII- 2015 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 25 KSMA 003; recordedBy: Al Dhafer, H., Fadl, H., Abd Eldayem, M., El Torky, A., El Gharbawy, A., Soliman; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: KSMA; occurrenceID: D4F64F3D-84C4-5C42-958C-A1B5E25E1DC0; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Asir; locality: Raydah; verbatimElevation: 1850 m; verbatimLatitude: 18 ° 11 ' 40.74 ''; verbatimLongitude: 42 ° 24 ' 41.46 ''; Event: eventDate: 05 - III- 2015 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 25 GP 04; recordedBy: M. Seizmair, A. Ishag; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: CMS; occurrenceID: 2E156964-7360-5C09-AADB-4DDE62CB7730; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Jizan; locality: Fayfa Mts, Al Kasha; verbatimElevation: 640 m; verbatimLatitude: 17 ° 14 ' 30.3684 "; verbatimLongitude: 43 ° 3 ' 41.0178 "; Event: eventDate: 30 - X- 2024 Diagnosis Wingspan 36.6 – 37.0 mm (n = 3) in the males, 37. 1 - 37.6 mm (n = 3) in the females. Fore-wing length 16.9 – 17.5 mm (n = 3) in the males, 17.6 - 18.3 mm (n = 3) in the females. Labial palpus elongate, distal end acuminate, basal segment white-scaled. Maxillary palpus with greyish-brown scaling laterally. Fore-wing discal cell suffused with white scales over its entire range, with an orbiform black posterior discal spot and an infracellular darkish brown marking in the medial area of the anal border. Lower angle of the cell with a brownish-black strike bordered by a white line. Fringe grey. Uncus in the male genitalia with the neck short, constant in width, twice as long as wide, the apex of globular shape, rounded. Tuba analis equal in length with the uncus. Valva narrowed towards the apex, costa inflated basally, convex medially, distal end with a process terminating shortly below the apex. Phallus elongate, posterior portion slightly widened, vesica with a short, slightly curved cornutus, the anterior end of which is dilated. Posterior ductus bursae in the female genitalia with a strongly sclerotised dilation, followed by a short, strongly sclerotised colliculum and a slightly sclerotised antrum of subrectangular shape. Signum with short lateral processes (Popescu-Gorj and Constantinescu 1977, Figs 1 d, 3 c, 4 c, 6 c, d). Distribution Afrotropical – Ethiopia, Congo, Mali, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Kenya (Popescu-Gorj and Constantinescu 1973, Popescu-Gorj and Constantinescu 1977 and De Prins and De Prins 2025). New to the Arabian Peninsula.
Institutions
- King Saud University (SA)
- Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-07-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16606243
- Primary Topic
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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