Mniotype lama kortka Volynkin, Matov & Behounek

Volynkin, Anton V., Matov, Alexei Yu., Behounek, Gottfried & Han, Hui-Lin, 2014, A review of the Palaearctic Mniotype adusta (Esper, 1790) species-group with description of a new species and six new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Zootaxa 3796 (1), pp. 1-32 : 4

Mniotype lama kortka Volynkin, Matov & Behounek , ssp. n.

( Figs 4–6 , 53, 54 , 98 )

Type material. Holotype: male, Kazakhstan, Prov. Almaty, Zailiskiy Alatau, 1700 m, 15 km S of Issyk, Issyk Lake, N43º14', E077º28', 30.v.2006, leg. Balázs Benedek. Slide AV1121 Volynkin (Coll. BBT). Paratypes: 1 male, 2 females, same data as holotype (Coll. BBT); 2 males, Kazakhstan, Prov. Almaty, Elsyn-Buryik mt, 12 km SE of Karasaz, near Tuz Kol, 2100 m, N43º00', E079º56', 29.v.2006, leg. Balázs Benedek (Coll. BBT).

Slides AV 1118, AV 1119 Volynkin (males), AV 1122 Volynkin (female).

Diagnosis. The new subspecies is close to M. lama lama ( Figs 1–3 ), but differs externally in the dark brown colouration of the body, much darker and more concolorous brown ground colour of the forewings with darker subbasal and subterminal areas, and the somewhat darker hindwings ( Figs 4–6 ). The females of the new subspecies are smaller and have somewhat shorter and broader forewings than females of M. lama lama .

Description. External morphology ( Figs 4–6 ). Wingspan 35–37 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Ground colour of forewing dark brown. Crosslines thin, double. Submarginal line pale, whitish ochreous, thin, strongly dentate. Marginal line present as a series of black wedge-like dots between the veins. Basal dash short, thin, black. Claviform short, dark brown, with thin black border; medial fascia thin, black. Medial area strongly shadowed around claviform and between reniform and orbicular stigmata. Terminal area dark brown. Cilia dark brown. Hindwing brown, discal spot diffuse, semilunar. Cilia greyish brown. Male genitalia ( Figs 53, 54 ): very close to those of the nominotypical subspecies ( Figs 51, 52 ) and differ only in the more angular cucullus and more dentate ventral margin of the digitus. Female genitalia ( Fig. 98 ): differ from those of M. lama lama ( Fig. 97 ) in the shorter apophyses anteriores, broader antrum, broader and more curved ductus bursae and smaller conical projection of the corpus bursae.

Distribution. Central Asian. Northeast Tien Shan massif (Southeast Kazakhstan).

Etymology. Kortka is a female character in the great Kazakh people's epic "Koblandy-batyr".

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Mniotype lama sspp. adults: 1, M. l. lama, lectotype male, Korla (NKMB); 2, ditto, female, Kyrgyzstan (ZISP); 3, ditto, male, China, Xinjiang (ASV) (Photo by A. Saldaitis); 4, M. l. kortka, holotype male, SE Kazakhstan (BBT); 5, ditto, paratype female, same locality (BBT); 6, ditto, paratype female, same locality (BBT). 7, M. l. etugen, holotype male, W Mongolia, (ZISP); 8, ditto, paratype male, W Mongolia (AVB); 9, ditto, paratype male, W Mongolia (AVB); 10, ditto, paratype female, W Mongolia (ZISP).

FIGURES 51 – 56. Mniotype lama sspp., male genitalia: 51, M. l. lama, lectotype, Korla, slide GB 7658 m Behounek; 52, M. l. lama, Kyrgyzstan, Alai Ridge, slide AV 0001 Volynkin; 53, M. l. kortka, holotype, SE Kazakhstan, slide AV 1121 Volynkin; 54, M. l. kortka, paratype, SE Kazakhstan, slide AV 1119 Volynkin; 55, M. l. etugen, holotype, W Mongolia, slide AV 0666 Volynkin; 56, M. l. etugen, paratype, W Mongolia, slide AV 0676 Volynkin.

FIGURES 97 – 104. Mniotype spp., female genitalia: 97, M. lama lama, Kyrgyzstan, slide AV 0033 Volynkin; 98, M. l. kortka, paratype, SE Kazakhstan, slide AV 1122 Volynkin; 99, M. l. etugen, paratype, W Mongolia, slide AV 0673 Volynkin; 100, M. l. ayubaevorum, paratype, Altai Mts, slide AV 0505 Volynkin; 101, M. adusta adusta, Altai Mts, slide AV 0724 Volynkin; 102, M. a. poltavskyi, paratype, N Caucasus, slide 0 296 Matov; 103, M. a. sommeri, Iceland, slide 0 294 Matov; 104, M. adjuncta adjuncta, holotype, Dalhousie, slide A. Giusti (© BMNH) (photo by A. Giusti).