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The Tigermoths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini) of Papua Indonesia

by Rob de Vos

Lambula buergersi Gaede, 1925

[Lambula bürgersi Gaede, 1925] [holotype: Mulu, Papua New Guinea, in ZMHB]

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Only few specimens are known of this rare species, the holotype and a female from PNG and recently another female from the Foja Mountains.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Hotice Camp (Foja Mts.). Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: KSP, ZMHB. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

 

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Literature

De Vos, R., 2019. The "underwing" Lambula species from New Guinea with twelve new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini). SUGAPA digital 12(1): 57-89.
Gaede, M., 1925. Arctiiden-Studien (Lep.). Neue und wenig bekannte Arctiiden des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 11: 233-251.