''Lebedodes willihaberlandi'' is a

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 ...

in the family

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 ...

. It is found in

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

, where it has been recorded from the Mufindi Forests. The habitat consists of montane and upper montane woodlands and bushland. The length of the forewings is about 12.5 mm. The forewings are pale olive-buff with a buffy brown streak in the upper centre of the cell and a large spot below the lower angle of the cell. The terminal line, subterminal line, postmedial line and distal line are reduced to buffy brown striae. The hindwings are light-buff.

Etymology

The species is named for Willi Eduard Haberland, the grandfather of the author., 2008: Ten new species of ''Metarbelidae'' (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the coastal forests and the Eastern Arc Mountains Of Kenya and Tanzania, including one species From Two Upland Forests. ''Journal of East African Natural History'' 97 (1): 43-82. DOI: 10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97 3:TNSOML.0.CO;2. Abstract

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References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Endemic fauna of Tanzania Metarbelinae Moths described in 2008 {{Metarbelinae-stub