Two new endemic species of emAbantiades/em Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Michael D Moore, Ethan P Beaver, Alejandro Velasco-Castrillón, Mark I Stevens

Zootaxa 2021 Apr 07

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Abantiades penneshawensis Moore Beaver sp. nov. and Abantiades rubrus Moore Beaver sp. nov. are described as new. Both species are endemic to Kangaroo Island, and although both are related to species that occur on the Australian mainland and other islands, they are distinguished from those sister and phenotypically similar species by morphology and mtDNA (COI) barcodes. These two new species raise the number of Abantiades species on Kangaroo Island to six, three being endemic, and 45 species in the genus for the whole of Australia. There are now 13 species of Hepialidae (one undescribed) known from Kangaroo Island and we discuss the potential effects of recent catastrophic fire on some distributions.

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Michael D Moore, Ethan P Beaver, Alejandro Velasco-Castrillón, Mark I Stevens. Two new endemic species of emAbantiades/em Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia. Zootaxa. 2021 Apr 07;4951(3):zootaxa.4951.3.9