taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CE87E27B05FFCEB78421DAFC43769D.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 7) Redescription. Male habitus (Figs 1 – 2). Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen pale straw to straw. Forewing. Forewing length: 19 – 24 mm. Somewhat triangle with rounded apex and tornal angle, outer margin convex and slightly wavy. Ground color pale straw to straw. Pattern, if not absent, consists of vague doubled pale and dark straw postmedial line (Fig. 1) or single dark straw postmedial line (Fig. 2), barely pronounced dark straw discal dot. Fringe straw. Hindwing. Somewhat trapezoid, outer margin convex and slightly wavy. Ground color straw. Pattern, if not absent (Fig. 1), consists of vague dark straw postmedial and submarginal lines (Fig. 2). Fringe straw. Genitalia (Figs 5 – 6). Tegumen a band widening medially. Socii membranous, covered with short chaetae. Uncus more (Fig. 6) or less (Fig. 5) elongated with more or less pronounced neck (Fig. 6, shown with arrows), covered with short chaetae, distally has two pointed apices (Fig. 5) or one rounded (Fig. 6). Gnathos short, semioval, spatula-like with uneven surface; narrow subanal plate goes from it towards anal opening (Fig. 16). Vinculum a narrow band. Valvae elongated, rounded, covered with chaetae, laterally and ventrally slightly wavy; sacculus weakly pronounced. Juxta boat-like, apically rounded, widened basally, surrounds aedeagus. Aedeagus elongated, narrow, almost straight. Vesica small, ovoid. Female habitus (Figs 3 – 4) Similar to male but has very short rami on antennae, broader and more transparent wings. Forewing length: 21.5 – 24 mm. Female genitalia (Fig. 7). Papillae anales semispherical, densely covered with setae. Posterior apodemes twice as long as anterior ones. Vaginal plates reduced. Ductus sclerotized. Bursa very long, pear-shaped. Reminds closely related L. ponticus from Türkiye (Fig. 8), but ductus is shorter. Examined material: 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Iran, Zanjan Province, Gilvan Pass, 2000 – 2200 m, 5 – 15.10.2007, leg. Hacz (CGM). Acknowledgments We thank the late Dr. Prof. Vadim V. Zolotuhin for preliminary work on Lemonia.	en	Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Revay, Edita E., Yakovlev, Roman V., Saldaitis, Aidas, Sulak, Harald, Petrányi, Gergely, Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M. (2024): Description of the female, redescription of the male of Lemonia tamara, and a checklist of Lemonia (Lepidoptera, Brahmaeidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 97-105, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.8, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.8
