Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Burundi (First Results)

Abstract

The list of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) Burundi is presented for the first time, including 12 species from 6 genera of 3 subfamilies. For the first time, 11 species are cited for Burundi.

Three new species of subfamily Politzariellinae (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Guinea and Zambia

“…Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Africa are still poorly studied. There are faunistic reviews only on individual countries: Malawi [Yakovlev, Murphy, 2013], Zimbabwe [Yakovlev, Lenz, 2013], Zambia [Yakovlev, 2014], the Republic of South Africa, Namibia [Mey, 2015[Mey, , 2016, Swaziland [Yakovlev, Witt, 2016a], the Central African Republic [Yakovlev et al, 2018] and Burundi [Yakovlev, Witt, 2019].…”

Review of genus Afrikanetz Yakovlev, 2009 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) with descriptions of four new species and establishment of new combination for Coryphodema zimbabwensis Mey, 2017 and Camellocossus austrorum Mey, 2017

“…The new species is named after Thomas J. Witt (1947Witt ( -2019, the founder of the largest private collection of Lepidoptera -the Museum of Thomas Witt (Munich, Germany).…”