Homadaula watamomaritima Mey, 2005

Mey, Wolfram, 2022, Unexpected diversity: ten new species of Homadaula Lower, 1899 from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Galacticoidea: Galacticidae), Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 21-33 : 23

Homadaula watamomaritima Mey, 2005

Material: 1 ♀, Kenya, Coast, Mwabungu , s.l., 4°21′S 39°33′E, 22.xi.2004, leg. D. Agassiz, Genitalia slide Mey 52/21 (coll. Agassiz); 2 ♀, Zimbabwe, Manicaland, Bvumba , 1360 m, 19°03′33′′S 32°42′41′′E, 3–5.xi.2016, genitalia slide Mey 03/22, leg. D. Agassiz & K. Larsen (coll. Agassiz)

Remarks: The two female specimens are tentatively assigned to H. watamomaritima . The female genitalia are similar to H. ravula and H. calamitosa , but differ in some details (see Fig. 2 ). They are also quite different from Homadaula spec. A , which was also collected in the Coast Province of Kenya.

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Figure 2 – Homadaula watamomaritima Mey, 2005, female genitalia, a – lateral view, b -tergum VII and VIII, dorsal aspect, c – ventral aspect, scale bar: 0.5 mm.