Dinometa Explained

Dinometa is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. It was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927, containing at the time only the species Dinometa maputuana, originally described by Wichgraf in 1906 as Gastroplakaeis maputuana.^{[1] [2]} Two additional species, Dinometa abigailae and Dinometa ethani, were described in 2024 by Alexey Prozorov et al.^[3]

Species

• Dinometa abigailae Prozorov et al., 2024 – Kenya, Tanzania^[3]
• Dinometa ethani Prozorov et al., 2024 – Tanzania^[3]
• Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906) – Mozambique,^[4] South Africa and Tanzania.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . Goff . R. . Dinometa . Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera) . 25 May 2024.
2. Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . amp . 2018 . Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906) . Afromoths . September 19, 2018.
3. Prozorov, Alexey M.; Prozorova, Tatiana A.; Yakovlev, Roman V.; Volkova, Julia S.; Saldaitis, Aidas; Sulak, Harald; Revay, Edita & Müller, Günter C. 2024. Description of two new species of Dinometa from East Africa with remarks on D. maputuana (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae). Zootaxa 5397(4): 486—496. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.4.2
4. (in German) Wichgraf, F. (1913). "Eine neue äthiopische Limacodidae und anderes". Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben 7:13–14
5. Web site: Taxonomy Browser: Dinometa maputuana . Barcode of Life Data System . September 19, 2018.
6. Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . amp . 2018 . Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906) . Afromoths . September 19, 2018.