''Mountelgonia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s belonging to the family
Cossidae,
Metarbelidae
The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Met ...
.
Distribution
The known species of this genus are found in Central & Eastern
Africa
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(
Kenya
)
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Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...
,
Rwanda
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,
Tanzania
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and
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
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Lehmann, 2013. ''Description of two new genera and ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from western, north-central and eastern Africa with notes on habitats and biogeography''.
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Species
*'' Mountelgonia percivali'' Lehmann, 2013 (Kenya)
*'' Mountelgonia lumbuaensis'' Lehmann, 2013 (Kenya)
*'' Mountelgonia arcifera'' (Hampson, 1909), (Kenya & Tanzania)
*'' Mountelgonia abercornensis'' Lehmann, 2013 (Zambia)
*'' Mountelgonia thikaensis'' Lehmann, 2013 (Kenya)
*'' Mountelgonia pagana'' (Strand, 1909) (Rwanda)
*'' Mountelgonia urundiensis'' Lehmann, 2013 (Burundi)
References
Metarbelinae
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