Afrikanetz kruegeri – New species of Cossinae (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) from Namibia

Abstract

The article describes a new species, Afrikanetz kruegeri sp. n. from Namibia, Kunene Region. The article has 3 illustrations.

New species of the genus Afrikanetz Yakovlev, 2009 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) from the Hoggar Mountains (Southern Algeria)

“…The genus Afrikanetz Yakovlev, 2009 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) includes ten species widely spread in tropical Africa (from Côte d'Ivoire to South Africa) and one species in the southern portion of Saudi Arabia (Yakovlev 2009(Yakovlev , 2021(Yakovlev , 2022Mey 2017;Yakovlev & Witt 2019). The genus representatives from the wide belt of Sahel and Sahara Desert remained unknown.…”