Yakovlev Roman V
Altai State University, South Siberian Botanical garden, Lenina 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2014 Apr 29;3793:297-300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.2.11.
The genus Afroarabiella Yakovlev, 2008 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) was established for Cossus tahamae Wiltshire, 1949 by Yakovlev (2008). Currently, seven species are included in the genus (Yakovlev 2008). Yakovlev (2011) added an additional new species, A. tanzaniae Yakovlev from Tanzania. Members of the genus are widespread from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula and throughout much of Africa (Fig. 1). During the studies of Lepidoptera by Petr Ustjuzhanin (Novosibirsk, Russia) and Vasilij Kovtunovich (Moscow), a new species of the genus Afroarabiella was discovered and the description is given below.
阿非罗阿拉伯蛾属（Afroarabiella）由雅科夫列夫于2008年建立（鳞翅目：木蠹蛾科），该属是为1949年威尔特郡描述的塔哈马木蠹蛾（Cossus tahamae）而设立。目前，该属包含7个物种（雅科夫列夫，2008年）。雅科夫列夫（2011年）又增添了一个新物种，即来自坦桑尼亚的坦桑尼亚阿非罗阿拉伯蛾（A. tanzaniae Yakovlev）。该属成员广泛分布于阿拉伯半岛西南部及非洲大部分地区（图1）。在俄罗斯新西伯利亚的彼得·乌斯季朱扎宁和莫斯科的瓦西里·科夫图诺维奇对鳞翅目昆虫进行研究期间，发现了阿非罗阿拉伯蛾属的一个新物种，其描述如下。
