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Membership is annual per calendar year and fees are due on January 1 of each year. CORRESPONDENCE General: The Public Relations Officer, Dave McDern1ott, 39 Norman Drive, Northcliff Ext.9, 2195, South Africa. E-Mail: [email protected] Metamorphosis: The Editor, P. O. Box 12538, Onderstepoort, 0110, South Africa. E-Mail: [email protected] December 2007 METAMORPHOSIS VOL. 18, No. 4 127 METAMORPHOSIS ISSN 1018-6490 CONTENTS Four new names for Afrotropical Lycaenidae By G. Lamas ................................................................................................ 128 The first record of an Orachrysops in Gauteng By R.F. Terblanche and D.A. Edge .............................................................. 131 The butterfly Hypolimnas salmacis magnifica (Drury, 1773) in Kakamega Forest National Reserve (KFNR), Kenya By F.N. Namu, J.M. Githaiga, E.N. Kioko, P.N. Ndegwa, C.L. Häuser, and L. Kühne .......................................................................... 142 A new subspecies of Charaxes contrarius van Someren, 1969 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae) from Tanzania By A.H.B. Rydon, T.C.E. Congdon, and S.C. Collins ................................ 144 Why are moths attracted to artificial light sources? Moths `n things #1 By H.S. Staude ............................................................................................ 151 Multiple sightings of Charaxes brutus natalensis in the extreme southwestern Cape Province By A.J.M. Claassens ................................................................................... 156 Territorial behaviour and display of androconial hair-tufts by Caprona pillaana Wallengren, 1857 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in the Magaliesberg, South Africa By R.F. Terblanche ..................................................................................... 158 Front cover: Brephos festiva (Agaristinae) ♂: S. Woodhall Back cover: Top left: Caprona pillaana ♂: R.F. Terblanche Top right: Caprona pillaana ♂: R.F. Terblanche Second row left: Caprona pillaana ♂ Thabazimbi: R.F. Terblanche Second row right: Caprona pillaana ♂ Vredefort Dome: R.F. Terblanche Third row left: Charaxes brutus natalensis♂: B. van der Walt Third row right: Laelia sp. (Lymantriidae), ♂, Gatamayu forest, Aberdare mountains, Kenya: H. Staude Fourth row left: Golden moths, Mainly Trichoplusia orichalcea (Pusiinae), Robbers Pass, Mpumalanga, South Africa: H.Staude Fourth row right: Moths attracted to artificial light, Robbers Pass, Mpumalanga, South Africa: H.Staude 128 METAMORPHOSIS VOL. 18, No. 4 December 2007 Four new names for Afrotropical Lycaenidae G. Lamas Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14-0434, Lima-14, Peru. Email: [email protected] Abstract The following new replacement names are proposed herein: Liptena decipiens stebema, for Liptena decipiens etoumbi Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, nec Liptena (Tetrarhanis) etoumbi Stempffer, 1964; Iolaus eurisus susurro, for Papilio helius Fabricius, 1781, nec Papilio helius Cramer, 1779; Iolaus (Epamera) diametra congco, for Epamera diametra littoralis Congdon & Collins, 1998, nec Iolaus (Argiolaus) crawshayi littoralis Stempffer & Bennett, 1958; and Hypolycaena suda, for Hypolycaena liara form obscura Stempffer, 1947, nec Hypolycaena coeruleus [sic] obscurus Suffert, 1904. Introduction During preparation of a complete synonymic checklist of the world's Lycaenidae, as part of the ongoing "Global Butterfly Names Project", an electronic cataloguing initiative currently housed at the Galton Laboratory, Department of Biology, University College London (see: www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/), four homonymous names of Afrotropical Lycaenidae were detected. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999) mandates that a junior homonym must be rejected, and replaced by a substitute name. Accordingly, I present herein a list of those homonymous names, and propose new replacement names (nomina nova) for them. Taxonomic changes 1. Liptena decipiens stebema Lamas, nom. nov. The name Liptena decipiens etoumbi Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974, is a junior primary homonym of Liptena (Tetrarhanis) etoumbi Stempffer, 1964, currently treated as Tetrarhanis ilala etoumbi (Stempffer, 1964) (Williams, 2007), and has no known junior, potentially available, synonym. Etymology: The new name is an arbitrary combination, formed from the intial letters of the names of the authors Stempffer, Bennett, and May. It should be treated as a feminine noun. 2. Iolaus eurisus susurro Lamas, nom. nov. The name Papilio helius Fabricius, 1781, currently Iolaus eurisus helius (Fabricius, 1781) (Williams, 2007) is a junior primary homonym of Papilio helius Cramer, December 2007 METAMORPHOSIS VOL. 18, No. 4 129 1779, currently Xenandra helius (Cramer, 1779) (Riodinidae; Callaghan & Lamas, 2005), and has no known junior, potentially available, synonym. Etymology: The new name derives from the Latin masculine noun "susurrus", meaning "whisper". It should be treated as a masculine noun. 3. Iolaus (Epamera) diametra congco Lamas, nom. nov. The name Epamera diametra littoralis Congdon & Collins, 1998, currently Iolaus (Epamera) diametra littoralis (Congdon & Collins, 1998) (Williams, 2007) is a junior secondary homonym of Iolaus (Argiolaus) crawshayi littoralis Stempffer & Bennett, 1958, and has no known junior, potentially available, synonym. Etymology: The new name is an arbitrary combination, formed from the initial letters of the names of the authors, Congdon and Collins. It should be treated as a masculine noun. 4. Hypolycaena suda Lamas, nom. nov. The name Hypolycaena liara form obscura Stempffer, 1947, currently regarded as a valid species (Williams, 2007), is a junior primary homonym of Hypolycaena coeculus [sic] obscurus Suffert, 1904, currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Hemiolaus caeculus (Hopffer, 1855) (Ackery et al., 1995; Williams, 2007), and has no known junior, potentially available, synonym. Etymology: The new name is an arbitrary combination of letters, referring to the type locality of Hypolycaena obscura Stempffer (Sudan). It should be treated as a feminine noun. Acknowledgements My special thanks to the librarians of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Natural History Museum, London, for the splendid bibliographical help provided. To Jim Mallet and Mark Williams, for their interest and encouragement. This study was partly financed by a grant from the Global Biodiversity Information Facilty (GBIF – ECAT Programme) to University College London (James Mallet, PI). References ACKERY, P.R., SMITH, C.R. & VANE-WRIGHT, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies. An annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. CSIRO Publications, East Melbourne. xi + 803 pp. CALLAGHAN, C.J. & LAMAS, G. 2005. Riodinidae, pp. 141-170. In: Lamas, G. (Ed.). Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea – Papilionoidea. In: Heppner, J.B. (Ed.). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Volume 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. CONGDON, T.C.E. & COLLINS, S.C. 1998. Kielland's Butterflies of Tanzania. Supplement. African