Bryophila katiba ( Rungs, 1972 )

Vargas-Rodríguez, Suraya M., Fibiger, Michael, Honey, Martin R., Ronkay, Gábor, Yela, José Luis, Zilli, Alberto & Ronkay, László, 2020, Bryophila perloides Guenée, 1852 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Bryophilinae), an overlooked member of the European Noctuidae fauna, with upgrading of Bryopsis Boursin, 1970 to generic level (Taxonomic studies on the western Palaearctic Bryophilinae, No. 1), Zootaxa 4845 (1), pp. 53-70 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.1.4
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scientific name	Bryophila katiba ( Rungs, 1972 )
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Bryophila katiba ( Rungs, 1972)

( Figs 4a and 4b View FIGURE 4. 4 ; 8d View FIGURE 8. 8 )

Material examined ( but not yet dissected): Holotype male ( Fig 4a View FIGURE 4. 4 ) and two male paratypes: Maroc, Anti Atlas , Tafraout , 18- VI11-1946 , in MNHN. After Rungs (1972): “Wingspan: 25 mm. A female captured with the male, shows the bottom of the wings shrimpy pink and no deep white: leander n.f. «. 1 female (dissected) ( Figs 4b View FIGURE 4. 4 and 8d View FIGURE 8. 8 ), Morocco, Anti-Atlas Mts, Tizi’n Tarakatine pass, 1600 m, 29°45’11”N, 8°50’02”W, 29-V-2005, leg. Gy. M. László & G. Ronkay (in coll. GR). GoogleMaps

Taxonomic notes: The taxonomic status of this taxon remains somehow uncertain, as no type material has yet been dissected, but it differs externally from the other members of the species-group by its smaller size, paler colouration and dark markings ( Figs 4a and 4b View FIGURE 4. 4 ). The types resemble more B. barbaria than any other taxa, though they are remarkably smaller and paler coloured than specimens of B. barbaria from the higher altitude places of the Moroccan Atlas. Besides, the genitalia of a female collected in the Anti Atlas mountains ( Fig 8d View FIGURE 8. 8 ) clearly differ from those of B. barbaria ( Fig 8c View FIGURE 8. 8 ) in the shape of the appendix bursae and in the width of the ductus bursae, much narrower in B. katiba and without the characteristic swelling of B. barbaria .