Psilodera hessei Schlinger 1960
A small species with yellow (male) or more orange-brown (female) fasciae on abdominal tergites, yellow legs with pale brown tarsi, small yellow spot at wing base; wings with black costa and dark brown veins, vein R2+3 close to vein R4 at wing apex, but not united, vein R5 ends before apex.
This species is illustrated in MAD2:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Copulating-pair-of-Psilodera-hessei-Schlinger-South-Africa-photograph-C-SA_fig1_322406173
Distribution: Recorded from Zimbabwe and South Africa (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State). P. hessei is the only Psiloderia species commonly found a considerable distance from the coast of South Africa.
iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144624886
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