Afriberina tenietaria (Staudinger, 1900) in France (Lepidoptera Geometridae Ennominae). During a visit
to the collections of the Bonn Zoological Museum, one of us noted, with surprise, the French origin of two specimens
of Afriberina tenietaria, discovered and given to this museum by the third author, following several stays he realized
near Savournon, in the Department of the Hautes-Alpes. During the summer 2016, the both first authors went to this
region in order to try to find again this moth hitherto never mentioned in France, previously known only from North
Africa and from Spain. This new species from the Spanish fauna in the Hautes-Alpes, as well as Actias isabellae
(Graells, 1849), a century ago, or Ekboarmia sagnesi Dufay, 1979, among the Geometrid moths, confirms the
peculiarities and the richness of this region, and represents a very remarkable new element of the local biodiversity.
The study of the genus Afriberina Wehrli, 1943, allowed in addition to transfer one of its former species to another
genus : Afriberina nobilitaria (Staudinger, 1892) = Alcis nobilitaria (Staudinger, 1892) n. comb.
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