Asphalia nigrofascicula, Graeser, 1888

Mironov, Vladimir G. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2019, Types of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zootaxa 4615 (1), pp. 145-154 : 149

nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888

Figs 11, 12

Asphalia Nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 , Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 32: 152.

Type locality: “Chab[arovsk].”.

Present status: Neoploca arctipennis (Butler, 1878) or Neoploca arctipennis ssp. nigrofascicula ( Graeser, 1888) : Demopsestini.

Taxonomic remarks: The taxon is better considered a continental geographic subspecies of the Japanese N. arctipennis (Butler, 1878) although to date it has been listed only as its synonym.

Nomenclatural notes: A lectotype of Asphalia nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 , was designated by László & al. (2007: 284): this was a male specimen from NHML labeled “Ussuri. Dörr[ies]. Berlin ”. The authors added that “there are no authentic specimens of this taxon in Berlin while in the collection in St. Petersburg there is only a ♂ under the name ‘ nigrofascicula’ ”.

The taxon was in fact described “…nur in zwei ♀♀ -Stücken, welche ich in Chab[arovsk]. aus … Puppen gezo- gen habe” ( Graeser, 1888: 152). On this basis the male from BMNH cann’t be a syntype and thus cann’t be the lectotype of the taxon (Articles 74.2 and 74.1 of the Code) .

Only one female of those listed by L. Graeser is present in ZISP in fine condition, and is the only known original syntype of the taxon which is designated here lectotype of Asphalia nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 . It is a spread specimen in fine condition (coll. ZISP) supplied with the following labels: a greenish elongated rectangle with a narrow black frame and printed «Chabarofka» [now the city of Khabarovsk] and a white wider rectangle with narrow black frame and printed text «coll Dieckmann | (Graeser legit)». The specimen was designated with a red rectangular label with printed text “ Asphalia | nigrofascicula Graeser , | 1888 ♀ | design. Dubatolov et | Zolotuhin, 1994” .

Although the specimen was selected as a lectotype in 1994 by V. Dubatolov and V. Zolotuhin, this was not published, and therefore it is officially designated only here by V. Mironov & V. Zolotuhin. The specimen is kept in ZISP in cabinet 217/drawer 20. The second syntype female mentioned by L. Graeser is not present here .

Figures

FIGURES 1–23. Types of Thyatirinae. 1, holotype of Cymatophora albicostata Bremer, 1861 (ZISP); 2, its reproduction from Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 8(1): pl. 5, fig. 6; 3, lectotype of Cymatophora octogesima var. caucasica Krulikowsky, 1901 (ZMKU: courtesy I. Kostjuk); 4, lectotype of Gonophora dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 (ZISP); 5, correct lectotype of Thyatira hedemanni Christoph, 1885 (ZISP); 6, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 2, fig. 3); 7, holotype of Thyatira derasa var. intermedia Bremer, [1864] (ZISP); 8, holotype of Tethea ocularis ssp. opa Zolotuhin, 1997 (ZISP); 9, lectotype of Thyatira moellendorfi Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 10—its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 12); 11, false lectotype of Asphalia nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 (NHML); 12, correct lectotype of A. nigrofascicula Graes. (ZISP); 13, so-called ‘type’ of Cymatophora tancrei Graeser, 1888, from ZMHU; 14, labels of C. tancrei enlarged and cover page of the publication issue; 15, false holotype of Cymatophora or var. terrosa Graeser, 1888 (ZMHU); 16, correct lectotype of C. or var. terrosa Graes. (ZISP); 17, lectotype of Thyatira violacea Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 18, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 11); 19, paratype of Nothoploca nigripunctata ssp. zolotarenkoi Dubatolov, 1987 (ZISP); 20, holotype of Cymatophora trifolium Alphéraky, 1895 (ZISP); 21, lectotype of Thyatira opalescens Alphéraky, 1897 (ZISP); 22, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 9, fig. 7); 23, location of Pung-Tung village on the map by Fixsen (1887).