TWO GENERA AND NINETEEN SPECIES OF FRUIT-FEEDING EREBID MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA: EREBIDAE) RECORDED IN CAMEROON FOR THE FIRST TIME

Abstract

During our surveys of fruit-feeding Lepidoptera at the Mount Cameroon National Park and the Bimbia Bonadikombo Community Forest (both southwestern Cameroon) we recorded nineteen species of Erebidae moths not previously reported from Cameroon. Simultaneously, we provide the first records of genera Ametropalis and Lacera from the country.

Keywords

• Erebinae
• Calpinae
• Hypeninae
• Macroheterocera
• Mount Cameroon
• the Gulf of Guinea Highlands
• Africa
• frugivorous insects
• distribution