Gamelia bennetti sp. nov., a new Saturniidae species from Trinidad and Tobago (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea)

Matthew J W Cock; Rodolphe Rougerie

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.2

Gamelia bennetti sp. nov., a new Saturniidae species from Trinidad and Tobago (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea)

Zootaxa. 2021 Mar 15;4942(3):zootaxa.4942.3.2. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.2.

Authors

Matthew J W Cock¹, Rodolphe Rougerie

Affiliation

¹ c/o CABI, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY, UK.. m.cock@cabi.org.

PMID: 33757056
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.2

Abstract

Gamelia bennetti sp. nov. is described from Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, and compared with members of the Gamelia abas species group: G. abas (Cramer, [1775]), G. berliozi Lemaire, 1967, G. lichyi Lemaire, 1973, G. rubriluna (Walker, 1862) and G. septentrionalis (Bouvier, 1936). A photographic record suggests G. bennetti sp. nov. may also occur in Tobago.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, Hemileucinae, Neotropical Region, taxonomy, DNA barcoding.

MeSH terms

Animals
Lepidoptera*
Trinidad and Tobago