Dervishiya Yakovlev, 2006

Yakovlev, Roman V., Pljustch, Igor G., Skrylnik, Yuriy, Pak, Oleg & Witt, Thomas J., 2015, The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park, Zootaxa 3990 (1), pp. 41-72 : 50-51

Genus Dervishiya Yakovlev, 2006

Yakovlev, 2006c: 197.

Type species: Cossus cadambae Moore, 1865 . Designation by monotypy. * Dervishiya cadambae (Moore, 1865) ( Figs 43, 112 )

Cossus cadambae Moore, 1865: 822 .

Type locality: Calcutta.

Type material: holotype (male) in BMNH, examined. Distribution: India , Pakistan, new for Afghanistan ( Yakovlev 2011). Habitat and biology. Flight period: June.

Material examined: 1 male, Afghanistan, Nuristan, Barikot, 1800 m, 12− 17.07.1963, leg. Kasy & Vartian ( MNHW).

Dervishiya vartianae Yakovlev, 2011 ( Figs 44−45, 113 )

Yakovlev, 2011: 30.

Type locality: Afgh[anistan]., Nimla, 40 km SW v. Dschelalabad. Type material: holotype (male) in MWM, examined.

Distribution: Afghanistan ( Yakovlev 2011).

Erroneously reported as Catopta pallidalae Hampson, 1892 ( Daniel 1965) . Сossus pallidalae Hampson, 1892 ( Fig. 46) was described on the single specimen from Sikkim and later moved to the genus Sansara Yakovlev, 2004 (subfamily Zeuzerinae ).

Habitat and biology. Flight period: June.

Material examined: 13 males (holotype and 12 paratypes), 4 females (paratypes) Afgh[anistan]., Nimla, 40 km SW v. Dschelalabad, 23.6.1965, E. & A. Vartian leg. ( MWM; MNHW).

Figures

FIGURES 107 − 114. Distribution maps of Cossidae of Afghanistan: 107. Cossulus putridus (Christoph, 1887); 108. Cossulus strioliger (Alpheraky, 1893); 109. Cossulus turcomanica (Christoph, 1893); 110. Cossulus habibae Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Semagystia bamiani Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Semagystia wernerithomasi Yakovlev, 2007, Dyspessa sp., Dieida persa Strand in Stichel, 1911, Dieida afghana Yakovlev & Pljustch, 2014, Phragmacossia bandeamiri Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov.; 111. Vartiania senganensis (Daniel, 1949); 112. Dervishiya cadambae (Moore, 1865); 113. Dervishiya vartianae Yakovlev, 2011; 114. Semagystia agilis (Christoph, 1884).