Lygephila colorata Babics & Ronkay, 2009

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 : 55-56

Lygephila colorata Babics & Ronkay, 2009 Figs 11, 12

Material examined.

1 ♂, Paratype, Pakistan, Karakoram Mts, Naltar valley, 2800m, 74°12'E, 36°09.6'N, 30.06.2000, leg. Z. Varga & G. Ronkay, coll. O. Pekarsky, slide No.: OP1969m; 1 ♀, same data as male, slide No.: OP1970f.

Diagnosis.

Lygephila colorata differ from somewhat externally similar Lygephila amasina by more elongated forewing with pointed apex. In male genitalia it differ from congeners by very wide, massive valva, strong, thick ampulla. Female genitalia characterised by deeply concave posterior margin of antrum.

Male genitalia (Figs 30, 47-51). Clasping apparatus slightly asymmetrical (right valva narrower). Uncus short, dilated medially, apex with fine tip; scaphium membranous with sclerotized plate on subscaphium; valva elongated, narrowed at base with rather rounded apex (right valva more acute); ampulla large, massive, slightly curved towards costa, with obtuse tip. Aedeagus short, bent medially, with heavily sclerotized convex field on carina and spinulose area on lamina. Vesica large rather globular, multidiverticulate, everted laterally; medial part membranous; 1st subbasal diverticulum bearing heavily sclerotized crest with ridge-like cornutus complex; 2nd subbasal diverticulum bifurcated, composed from two narrow, elongated tube-like diverticula; medial diverticulum large, elongated, S-shaped with bilobate base and tapering upper part with acute tip; large, elongated terminal complex consists of five diverticula, one of them with densely scobinated top; opening point of terminal tube located at base of vesica near the carina; terminal tube membranous with slightly sclerotized area at base and weak scobination near gonopore (starting point of ductus ejaculatorius). Female genitalia (Fig. 82). Ovipositor short, papillae anales small, hairy with long setae on apical edges. Apophyses anteriores slender with fine tip, apophyses posteriores thin, somewhat longer than apophyses anteriores. Antrum U-shaped, asymmetrical, ostium bursae broad, posterior margin deeply concave; ductus bursae small. Appendix bursae small. Corpus bursae membranous, ovoid.

Distribution.

North-western Pakistan.