Nyssocnemis eversmanni (Lederer, 1853)

Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V. & Morozov, Pavel S., 2024, Revised checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of Northeast Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region), Ecologica Montenegrina 73, pp. 288-376 : 372-376

Nyssocnemis eversmanni (Lederer, 1853)

Bionomics. FP: VIII. Xero-mesophilous species. Steppes, meadows, river valleys.

Known localities. Z: Urlyutyub; B: Shonai.

Literature: Titov et al. (2017b).

Acknowledgements

The senior author is sincerely grateful to the Bayanaul State National Nature Park ( Kazakhstan) in the person of its director S.B. Akhmetzhanov, deputy director for science Ye.U. Kayerdenov, senior researcher D.N. Kunshuakova, the late Venera T. Tuleubekova (former research fellow), and the late K.K. Abukenov (former head of the Department of Science, Ecological Education and Tourism), the State forest natural reserve "Ertys Ormany", and the following persons for their extensive help in organising expeditions: V.K. Merts (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), K.K. Akhmetov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), T.N. Smagulov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), the late O.V. Belyalov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), N.A. Postnikov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), S.N. Borisov (Novosibirsk, Russia), A.V. Surov (Moscow, Russia), D.O. Ybrayev (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), M. Kučinić (Zagreb, Croatia), M. Černila (Kamnik, Slovenia), A. Karim (Yamyshevo, Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan), and T. Abylkhasanov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan). The following persons are acknowledged for their help in specimens collecting: S.M. Reznichenko (Sharbakty, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan), N.E. Tarasovskaya (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), V.B. Titov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), L.N. Ivan'ko (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), N.Ya. Zhukova (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), S.A. and Yu.P. Lorents (Moiseyevka, Zhelezinka Distr. of Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan), V.S. Bychkov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), A. Steidel (Gera, Germany), M.Yu. Volkov (Zhelezinka Distr. of Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan), A. Ploschanskaya (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), A. Kulakhmetova (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), A.O. Orazbayev (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), V.A. Blokhin (Bonn, Germany), T.K. Aylybayev (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), and S.A. Knyazev (Omsk, Russia). Senior author’s special thanks go to the late O.V. Lyakhov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan) for his enthusiasm, help in organising expeditions and Lepidoptera collecting, as well as for pictures of Schinia cognata provided.

The authors are deeply grateful to D.M. Malakhov ( GIS and Remote Sensing Department , Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan) for preparing the maps, V. S. Kononenko (Vladivostok, Russia) for pictures of the Amphipoea bifurcata paratype, and Talgat J. Abylkhasanov (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan) and P. Muhič ( Slovenia) for pictures of the habitats .

The work of Sergey Titov was partially funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Scientific Program “Assessment of biological resources of the Kazakh part of the transboundary Irtysh basin in the context of climate change (BR18574062). The work of Anton Volynkin and Pavel Morozov had no funding.

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