A new species of Cryptopacha Prozorov & Zolotuhin, 2012 (Lasiocampidae: Lasiocampinae) from West Africa

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Takano, Hitoshi, Lászlo Introduction, Gyula M. (2022): A new species of Cryptopacha Prozorov & Zolotuhin, 2012 (Lasiocampidae: Lasiocampinae) from West Africa. Bonn zoological Bulletin 71 (1): 19-22, DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2022.71.1.019, URL: dx.doi.org/10.20363/bzb-2022.71.1.019 Abstract. A new species of Cryptopacha is described from West Africa: C. smithi sp. n.

The habitus and genitalia are illustrated and a comparison made with its closest congener, C. porphyria (Holland, 1893). These two taxa are separated by the Dahomey Gap and their distribution is discussed in relation to this barrier to speciation.