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                    | Lukeniana friederikebauerae Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 24 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lukeniana hausmanni Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 35 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lukeniana lenzi Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 36 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lukeniana mbalaensis Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 33 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lukeniana robplowesi Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 34 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lukeniana stueningi Lehmann, Zahiri & Husemann, 2023 |  | Lehmann I., Zahiri R. & Husemann M. 2023. Revision of the Metarbelodes Strand, 1909 genus-group (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) with descriptions of two new genera and 33 new species from high elevations of eastern and southern Africa. page: 37 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lygropia acosmialis (Mabille, 1879) |  | Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. page: 499 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Lygropia atrinervalis Hampson, 1910 |  | Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. page: 499 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Macaldenia palumbiodes (Hampson, 1902) |  | page: BMNH | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Macroglossum trochilus (Hübner, 1823) |  | Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. page: 463 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Macroplectra rufopallens Hampson, 1910 |  | Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. page: 486 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Macropoliana buchholzi (Plötz, 1880) |  | Kitching I. J. 2017. Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory. page: Website | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Maliattha perta (Schaus & Clements, 1893) |  | Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. page: 406 (as blandula) | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Maliattha subblandula Hacker, 2016 |  | Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). page: 398 | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Mallocampa alenica Strand, 1912 |  | page: NHMUK | 
                
                
                
                
                    | Mallocampa dollmani (Tams, 1925) |  | Tams W. H. T. 1925d. African Lasiocampidae: notes and new species. page: 558 |