The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of two new species

Abstract

An annotated list of Cossidae of Malawi including 30 species from 13 genera and 3 subfamilies is presented for the first time. Two new species are described: Macrocossus grebennikovi Yakovlev, sp. nov. and Strigocossus elephas Yakovlev, sp. nov. Three new synonyms are established: Strigocossus moderatus (Walker, 1856) = Strigocossus leucopteris Houlbert, 1916, syn. nov. = Xyleutes sjoestedti vosseleri Gaede, 1930, syn. nov. and Strigocossus capensis (Walker, 1856) = Azygophleps kilimandjarae Le Cerf, 1914, syn. nov.

Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Burundi (First Results)

“…Holotype in MNKB, examined. Distribution: Tanzania, Malawi (Yakovlev & Murphy 2013). New record for Burundi.…”

“…Distribution. From Central (Tanzania) to Southern Africa (Yakovlev 2011 (Pinhey, 1979;Vári et al, 2002;Yakovlev, 2011;Yakovlev & Murphy, 2013). New record for Burundi.…”

Contribution to the knowledge of the Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve in South Mozambique with description of two new species

“…In the last decade, there has a significant progress been achieved concerning the study of African Cossidae. Numerous new genera and species have been described, and the fauna of several African countries has been revised resulting in publications on the Cossidae of Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia, Central African Republic, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Angola, Burundi and Rwanda (Yakovlev & Lenz 2013;Yakovlev & Murphy 2013;Yakovlev 2014;Mey 2015Mey , 2016Mey , 2017Yakovlev et al 2018;Yakovlev et al 2019a, b, c;Yakovlev & Witt 2019a, b).…”

Three new species of subfamily Politzariellinae (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Guinea and Zambia

“…Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Africa are still poorly studied. There are faunistic reviews only on individual countries: Malawi [Yakovlev, Murphy, 2013], Zimbabwe [Yakovlev, Lenz, 2013], Zambia [Yakovlev, 2014], the Republic of South Africa, Namibia [Mey, 2015[Mey, , 2016, Swaziland [Yakovlev, Witt, 2016a], the Central African Republic [Yakovlev et al, 2018] and Burundi [Yakovlev, Witt, 2019].…”