Xenophysa cacumena afghanorea Varga, 1985

Varga, Zoltán, 2011, Revision of the genus Xenophysa Boursin, 1969 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Zootaxa 3094, pp. 1-29 : 5-6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279082
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6193825
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BAA366-FFD2-837F-FF66-F88EFE413EC4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Xenophysa cacumena afghanorea Varga, 1985
status	stat. nov.

Treatment

Xenophysa cacumena afghanorea Varga, 1985 View in CoL , stat. rev.

Xenophysa cacumena afghanorea Varga, 1985 View in CoL , Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 37 (1–2): 33.

Type material. Holotype: male, “ Afghanistan, Dasht-i-Nawar, NW v.Ghazni, 3000 m, 8.–10. VI. 1965, leg. Kasy & Vartian (coll.Vartian)” ( NHMW). Paratypes: 23 3 and 2 Ƥ from the same locality and data (21 3, 2 Ƥ in coll. Vartian, NHMW, 2 3 in coll.Varga); 3 3, Afgh. c., Band-i-Amir, 3000 m, 29.–30.VII. 1963, leg.Kasy & Vartian (coll.Vartian, NHMW); 1 Ƥ, Afghanistan, Khurd-Kabul, 1900 m, 19.VII. 1969, leg.Vartian (coll.Vartian, NHMW). Genital slides: 3: Boursin Va 127, 134, Varga 1427, 2432, 2433, 2434.

Taxonomic notes. This subspecies is slightly larger (expanse: 30–35 mm, length of forewings: 14.5–15.5 mm) and more contrastingly marked in average than X. cacumena cacumena (Figs 11–12). Male genitalia slightly larger with somewhat more elongate bilateral extensions of tegumen and more acute costal extensions of valva, but without any significant differences.