Prasinocyma nereis Townsend 1952

Prasinocyma nereis Townsend, 1952 (comb.n.) (Figs 12, 53) Prasinocyma nereis Townsend (1952): 68. Locus typicus: Kenya: Nakura (Holotype ♂ NHM, examined). In Scoble (1999) combined with genus name Eretmopus. Neither genitalia nor COI data suggest or justify a placement outside Prasinocyma, therefore combined with Prasinocyma here (comb.n.). Material. Amhara: 1 ♂, Lake Tana (no. 82; BC ZSM Lep 83221, gen.prp. ZSM G 19588); Oromia: 1 ♂, West Shoa (locality no. 28; BC ZSM Lep 10016; gen.prp. ZSM G 19402). Redescription. Adult (Fig. 12). Wingspan. Male 28 – 32 mm. Ground colour pale bluish green, irrorated with white strigulae. Forewing without spot at the inner termen, with minute, black discal dot. Terminal dots of fore- and hindwings absent. Hindwing termen rounded. Length of male palpi 1.2 times diameter of eye, tip and upperside reddish, underside white. Frons reddish. Antennae long, bipectinate in male. Antennal branches pale ochre. Male frenulum present. Male hindtibia with white pencil and four spurs, with large projection at tip, covering half of first tarsomere. Male genitalia (Fig. 53). Uncus dilated at centre. Socii vestigial, reduced to two small setose bulbs. Gnathos strongly sclerotized, pointed and spinulose at the inner margin. Valva large, distally sub-rectangular, sub-apical lobe large. Sacculus sclerotized, at tip rectangularly bent toward costa to a large, strongly spinose harpe. Aedeagus (length 2.5 mm) with a single, long cornutus curved at its base, at the origin of the ductus seminalis a round sclerite with dentate margin. Sternum A 8 with two sclerotized lobes, spinulose at posterior margin and deeply notched between. Genetic data. BIN: BOLD:AAY 3216. Nearest neighbours: P. s ho a (3.0%) and P. c ro ca (3.7 %). P. shoa and P. nereis have COI sequences when excluding the 3 rd, highly variable, codon position. Remarks. New for the fauna of Ethiopia.Published as part of Hausmann, Axel, Sciarretta, Andrea & Parisi, Francesco, 2016, The Geometrinae of Ethiopia II: Tribus Hemistolini, genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4065 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4065.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27049