• DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3765.4.8
• Corpus ID: 36303397

The male of Sauris mouliniei (Legrand, 1971) comb. n. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Trichopterygini), an endemic Inner Seychelles moth.

@article{Bolotov2014TheMO,
  title={The male of Sauris mouliniei (Legrand, 1971) comb. n. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Trichopterygini), an endemic Inner Seychelles moth.},
  author={Ivan N. Bolotov and Artem A. Frolov and Yulia S. Kolosova and Alexander Vasilevich Kondakov},
  journal={Zootaxa},
  year={2014},
  volume={3765},
  pages={
          397-400
        }
}

• I. Bolotov, A. Frolov, +1 author A. Kondakov
• Published 19 February 2014
• Biology
• Zootaxa

The history of lepidopteran studies of the Inner Seychelles is about one hundred years old, and the data have been summarized recently in a comprehensive monograph (Gerlach & Matyot 2006). The largest granitic islands contain the greatest number of species—345 for Mahe and 288 for Silhouette—but the second largest, Praslin, has only 42 recorded species. A total of 17 Geometridae species occur in the granitic Seychelles. Among them are six species of Larentiinae with two endemics, including Episteira mouliniei Legrand, 1971, a unique Trichopterygini for these islands (Gerlach & Matyot 2006). This species was described based on a single female specimen in the genus Episteira Warren, 1899. The previously unknown male of the taxon is described herein.