Xestia (s. l.) ornata ( STAUDINGER, 1892 ) Varga & Ronkay, 2002

Varga, Z. & Ronkay, L., 2002, A Revision Of The Palaearctic Species Of The Eugraphe Hübner, [1821] 1816 Generic Complex. Part I. The Genera Eugraphe And Goniographa (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48 (4), pp. 333-374 : 365-366

Xestia (s. l.) ornata ( STAUDINGER, 1892) comb. n.

( Figs 15 , 17 , 41 , 66, 67 )

Hydrilla ornata STAUDINGER, 1892 , Dt. ent. Z. Iris 4: 296. Type locality: Margelan (? Alai Mts).

Type material examined: A syntype male from Margelan, a colour picture of which is illustrated in Fig. 66 . This specimen is designated here as the lectotype of Hydrilla ornata STAUDINGER (coll. STAUDINGER, ZMHU Berlin) .

Material examined. Kirghisia: 2 males, 5 females, Alai Mts, Tengizbai , 7.VII.1994, leg. TOROPOV & SINIAEV (coll. P. GYULAI, L. LEHMANN, Z. VARGA) ; 1 male, Ala-Archa valley , 20.VII.1986, leg. M. KOPP ; 1 female, Alai Mts, Dugobo , 1800–2000 m, 25–26.VII.1992, leg. M. KOPP ; 1 female, Alai Mts, Dugobo , 2300 m, 15.VII.1995, leg. MURZIN (coll. P. GYULAI) . Tadjikistan: 1 male, 2 females, Pamir Mts, Artuch valley , 2–10.VIII.1988, coll. A.V. NEKRASOV (coll. HNHM Budapest and G. RONKAY) ; 1 male, Vantch, Gushon , 25.07.1988, leg. JÜRIVETE (coll. ZMUH) ; 4 males, 7 females, Varzob valley, Maihur , 2000 m, 12.VIII.1967, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 male, 1 female, from the same locality, 6.VII.1967, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 3 males, 5 females, Varzob valley , VIII.1967, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 2 females, Karategin range, Sangikar gorge, 1700 m, 28.VIII.1969, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 female, Peter 1st Mts, Muk , 2100 m, 27.VIII.1975, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 5 males, 8 females, Peter 1st Mts, Ganishou , 2070 m, 14–18.VIII.1974, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 male, 1 female, Hissar Mts, Kvak valley , 1800 m, 28.VII.1960, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 3 males, 2 females, Hissar Mts, Gushary , 1400 m, 19.IX.1965, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 4 females, Hissar Mts, Kondara valley , 1800 m, 20.VIII.–1.IX.1994, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 male, Hissar Mts, Iskanderful , 1900–2300 m, 19–21.VII.1994, leg. LUKHTANOV ; 2 females, Obichingou river, n. Tawildara , 1850 m, 2.IX.1970, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 female, Seravshan Mts, Iskander-kul , 2200 m, 23–25.VII.1968, leg. SHCHETKIN ; 1 female, Seravshan Mts , 17.VII.1988 (coll. A. BECHER, P. GYULAI & J. STUMPF) . Afghanistan: 1 male, Badakhshan, Darwaz, Shewa valley, Basindj , 1900–2000 m, 27.VIII.1973., leg. Naumann & Nauruz (coll. VARGA) , 2 females, prov. Kadaghan, Salang-pass N-side, 69 ow, 35 o 40’l, 2400 m, 11–12.VII.1972. leg. Vartian (coll. VARTIAN, NHMW) .

Slide Nos RL 2492m, RL 7483m, RL 7550m, VZ 7047, VZ 7065 (males), RL 7482f, RL 7543f (females).

Diagnosis: Moths of smaller size with conspicuously slender body, showing some external similarity to the species of the Caradrina genus-group (see the taxonomic misplacement of the species by STAUDINGER). It is quite dissimilar to all related Noctuinae spp. , but rather similar to the newly described species, X. hypographa sp. n. The most important differential characters are the very large, sharply defined orbicular and reniform stigmata with light ochreous filling, the sharply

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marked, light ochreous ante- and postmedian lines, the light ochreous cilia and also several characters in the genitalia of both sexes, see below in the diagnosis of X. hypographa .

Description. Wingspan 28–36 mm, length of forewing 13–16 mm. Head and conspicuously long, slender abdomen light ochreous grey, thorax slighly darker and more greyish. Antenna filiform, with short and dense ciliation (male)or thin, filiform without ciliation (female). Forewing narrow tri - angular, acute apically. Ground colour ochreous grey, often with some greenish colouration; sharply marked, reniform stigma large, broad with light ochreous filling and sharply defined with black scales; orbicular spot broad, elliptical, light ochreous, sharply defined with black scales. Ante- and postmedial lines double, crenulate with ochreous filling; the outer side of antemedial and the inner side of postmedial is sharply defined with black scales. Subterminal line fine, broken, often with 2–3 arrowheads at the inner side. Hindwing light ochreous grey, shiny. Cilia light ochreous. Sexes similar, females slightly darker, with somewhat more elongate forewings.

Male genitalia ( Figs 15 , 17a ): Uncus obtuse but less spatulate than in case of the new species; cucullus and corona fully reduced. Valva pointed apically, pollex short or moderately elongate, harpe tiny, shorter but broader than in the new species, finely rounded apically. Sacculus simple, clavus reduced, juxta broad, rounded trapezoidal, weakly sclerotised. Aedeagus simple with dentate ribbon on the carina, dentate ribbon of aedeagus more sclerotised, more and unevenly dentate than in the new species; vesica saccate without cornuti and sclerotised elements.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 41 ): Ostium bursae sclerotized, quadrangular, broad and short, caudal margin with two small, ear-like postero-lateral appendages. Ductus bursae medium-long, broad, flattened, granulously sclerotized, ventral surface with stronger medial plate. Sclerotization of anterior part asymmetrical, considerably longer on left side. Appendix bursae large, subconical, weakly membranous, finely wrinkled, projected proximo-laterad. Corpus bursae elliptical, membranous, with four short, weak signum-stripes at fundus bursae.

Bionomics and distribution:The species is distributed from the northern Tien-Shan Mts. through the Pamirs and Hissar-Darwaz system to eastern Afghanistan (Nuristan).

Etymology: The name refers to the conspicuously rich and colourful markings of the species.

Figures

Fig. 15. Xestia (s.l.) ornata (STAUDINGER), slide Nos a = VZ7047, b = VZ7065, c = RL7483

Fig. 17. 17a = Xestia (s.l.) ornata (STAUDINGER), slide No. VZ7047, 17b = X. (s.l.) hypographa sp. n., paratype, slide No. VZ7045

Figs 36–42. 36–37 = Goniographa marcida (CHRISTOPH), slide No. RL7477: 36 = female genitalia, 37 = posterior part in larger magnification; 38–40 = G. gyulaipeteri sp. n., paratypes: 38 = female genitalia, slide No. RL7501, 39–40 = posterior part in larger magnification (slide Nos RL7501, RL7502); 41 = Xestia (s. l.) ornata (STAUDINGER), slide No. RL7482, posterior part in larger magni-

Figs 66–73. 66–67 = Xestia (s. l.) ornata (STAUDINGER): 66 = lectotype, 67 = female, Tadjikistan; 68–69 = X. (s. l.) hypographa sp. n.: 68 = holotype, 69 = paratype, female, Kirghisia; 70–71 = Hypernaenia denticulata (WARREN): 70 = male, 71 = female (both from NW Pakistan); 72–73 =