Paropta frater (Warnecke, 1929)

Zahiri, Reza, Tarmann, Gerhard, Efetov, Konstantin A., Rajaei, Hossein, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Jaenicke, Birgit, Dalsgaard, Thure, Sikora, Marcy & Husemann, Martin, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (1), pp. 39-70 : 39

11. Paropta frater (Warnecke, 1929)

Cossus frater Warnecke, 1929: Int Ent Z 23: 389.

Type material examined.

Paratlectoype ( ZMH 61344), 1♂ Südwest Arabien, Yemen, Sanäa, 2.viii.1931 (Fig. 11 ). "Paratypoid / SüdWest-Arabien / Yemen Samaa- / ? .Rathjens 2.8.31 // Cossus frater Warn. // Sig.G Warnecke / Eing Nr 5 1949 // ZMH 61344".

Type locality.

Arabien, Yemen, Sanäa.

Current status.

Valid species.

Remarks.

It was assumed that the syntypes were destroyed during the Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II. However, as Warnecke reported to Daniel, two syntypes at the ZMH were lost in 1943, but one of them had been stored in Saxony and thus survived the bombings ( Weidner 1974). Other type material (syntypes) is in the British Museum of Natural History ( Yakovlev 2011; Yakovlev and Witt 2017).

Figures

Figures 10 - 18. 10. Dyspessa hethitica Daniel, 1932; 11. Paropta frater (Warnecke, 1929); 12. Brachodes staudingeri Kallies, 1998; 13. Pyropteron chrysidiforme siculum f. fervens Bytinski-Salz, 1937; 14. Similipepsis osuni Bakowski & Kallies, 2008; 15. Sesia bembeciformis ab. incognita Strand, 1927; 16. Bembecia abromeiti Kallies & Riefenstahl, 2000; 17. Chamaesphecia (Scopulosphecia) minoica Bartssch & Puhringer, 2005; 18. Arbelodes claudiae Lehmann, 2010.