Lygephila amasina (Staudinger, 1878)

Pekarsky, Oleg, 2013, Taxonomic and morphological survey of the Lygephila lusoria (Linnaeus, 1758) species-group with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae), ZooKeys 351, pp. 49-81 : 53-55

Lygephila amasina (Staudinger, 1878) Figs 9, 10

Material examined.

1 ♂, Turkey, Prov. Agri, Karasu-Aras Mts, 2100m, 7km E from Aydintepe, 42°28'27"E, 39°47'4"N, 04.VII.2000, leg. Gy. Fábián, I. Szécsényi & K. Székely, coll. O. Pekarsky, slide No.: OP1959m; 1 ♂, Türkei, 12 km west Ürgüp, 1400 m, 21.6.1979, leg. P. Kuhna, coll. ZFMK, slide No. OP2260m; 1 ♀, Türkei, 12 km west Ürgüp, 1400 m, 11.9.1981, leg. P. Kuhna, coll. ZFMK, slide No. OP2261f; 1 ♀, Libanon, Jabal el Laqlouq, Street Mkhada–Laqloq, 1300-1500 m NN, 13.06.1999, leg. J. Krüger, coll. ZFMK, slide No. OP2262f; 1 ♀, Lebanon, Laqlouq, h-1600m, 25.07.2011, leg. Floriani & Saldaitis, coll. O. Pekarsky, slide No.: OP1960f.

Diagnosis.

Lygephila amasina distinguishing from similar Lygephila lusoria lusoria by more contrast wing pattern and somewhat longer, sometimes with acute apex of inner corner of the reniform stigmata. In genital structures it differs from Lygephila lusoria by broader uncus, longer, thinner ampulla reaching apex of valva, not sharp lateral edges of antrum and ovoid corpus bursa.

Male genitalia (Figs 27, 43-46). Slightly asymmetrical (right valva narrower). Uncus short, dilated distally, with fine tip; scaphium membranous with sclerotized plate on subscaphium; valva elongated, narrowed at base with apex rather acute; ampulla long, stick-like, slightly curved towards costa, reaching apex of valva. Aedeagus short with heavily sclerotized convex field on carina and spinulose area on lamina. Vesica small, globular, everted laterally; medial part membranous; heavily sclerotized crest with ridge-like cornutus complex based on elongated oblate diverticulum-like subbasal hump; 1st medial diverticulum medium-sized, 2nd medial diverticulum much larger, located on the opposite side of vesica with sclerotized area on the top; 1st terminal diverticulum two-chambered, one of them elongated tapering, another globular; 2nd terminal diverticulum tapering with acute top; 3rd terminal diverticulum situated in the same line with 2nd medial diverticulum; opening point of terminal tube located at base of medial part of vesica near to carina; terminal tube membranous with narrow sclerotized crest at base and weak scobination at distal end near gonopore (starting point of ductus ejaculatorius). Female genitalia (Fig. 81). Ovipositor short, papillae anales hairy with long setae on apical edges. Apophyses anteriores slender, apophyses posteriores thin, 1.6 times longer than apophyses anteriores. Antrum infundibuliform, asymmetrical, with heavily sclerotized elongated plate dorsally; ostium bursae broad, posterior margin gently concave; ductus bursae practically absent. Appendix bursae indistinct. Corpus bursae membranous, ovoid.

Distribution.

Turkey, Lebanon and Israel.