Dichagyris taftana elborsasta, Varga, Zoltán, Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2021

Varga, Zoltán, Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2021, Contributions To The Taxonomy And Biogeography Of The Genus Dichagyris (Subg. Dichagyris) Lederer, 1867 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (4), pp. 313-340 : 323-326

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.67.4.313.2021

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scientific name

Dichagyris taftana elborsasta
status

subsp. nov.

Dichagyris taftana elborsasta ssp. n.

( Figs 17–20, 45)

Holotype. Male, Iran, Prov. Mazandaran, Elburz Mts, Shahkuh-e-Bala , 2400 m, N36°33’, E54°36’, 19.VII.2003, leg. G. Ebert & R. Trusch; slide No. VZ 9269m (coll. SMNK).

Paratypes. Iran. 2 males and 3 females, with same data as holotype (coll. SMNK) ; 1 male, Prov. Mazandaran, Elburz Mts, Shahkuh-e-Pain , 2750 m, N36°33’, E54°26’ (coll. SMNK) ; 3 males, 2 females, Shahrud area, Tash vil. vicinity, 2600 m, 36°34’ 42’’ N, E 54°42’ 42’’E, 29-30. VI. 2010, leg. E. Gavristchuk (coll. M. Dvorak, Czech Rep.) GoogleMaps , 3 males with the same data (coll. H. Seibald, Austria) GoogleMaps , 1 male with the same data (coll. P. Gyulai, Miskolc, Hungary) GoogleMaps ; 5 males, “N-Iran, Berge östl. Semnan, 18. VI.1963, leg. Kasy & Vartian ” (coll. NHMW). Slide Nos: GYP 5555m, GYP 5556m, VZ 9270m, VZ 10132m, VZ 10133m, VZ9464f .

Diagnosis. Generally smaller and more gracile than the typical ssp. taftana and the next new subspecies, ssp. safavida , with its wingspan 32–37 mm. Light ochreous colouration of head, thorax and forewings strongly suppressed by reddish ochreous-brown hairs and scales; all forewing markings blurred; reniform and orbicular stigmata defined only by a few lighter ochreous spots; crosslines faint, submarginal field darker brown with some reddish tint; hindwings in males whitish with diffuse, pale greyish marginal area; in females somewhat darker, light grey with fuscous marginal field.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 45). The diagnostic features are the distally tapering valvae with robust, obtuse and terminally slightly dilated harpe (clasper),

stan, VZ 10087m, 40 = paratype, Kazakhstan, VZ 10094m

and the subbasal diverticulum of the vesica is relatively larger than in the two other subspecies.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Dichagyris

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