Gonophora dieckmanni, Graeser, 1888

Mironov, Vladimir G. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2019, Types of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zootaxa 4615 (1), pp. 145-154 : 147

dieckmanni Graeser, 1888

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Gonophora Dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 , Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 32(1): 148.

Type locality: “bei Nicol.”[city of Nikolaevsk-na-Amure].

Present status: Cymatochrocis dieckmanni ( Graeser, 1888) : Habrosynini .

Taxonomic remarks: Traditionally the species has been considered a member of the genus Habrosyne s. lat.; Cymatochrocis can thus be regarded as a subgenus of Habrosyne or a separate genus. We follow the second point of view, with Cymatochrosis including a group of species externally different from the complex of moths similar to pyritoides Hufnagel.

Nomenclatural notes: Caterpillars of the species had been found by L. Graeser near Nikolaevsk in limited quantities (“die Raupen dieser neuen Art fand ich in beschränkter Anzahl”) but as a result 17 moths had hatched finally (“ich erzog aus diesen Raupen 17 Schmetterlinge”): they are therefore all syntypes of Gonophora dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 . Of these only 5 are present in ZISP .

One of them, a female with a slightly damaged right hind wing (glued) is designated here a lectotype of Gonophora dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 . It is a finely spread specimen (coll. ZISP) which is supplied with the following labels: a greenish elongate rectangular with a narrow black frame with «Nicolajefsk» printed and a white wider rectangle with narrow black frame and printed text «coll Dieckmann | (Graeser legit)». The specimen is designated by a red rectangular label with printed text “ Lectotypus Gonophora | dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 | design. Dubatolov et | Zolotuhin, 1994”. Although the specimen was selected as a lectotype in 1994 by V. Dubatolov and V. Zolotuhin, this was not published, and it is officially designated only here by V. Mironov& V. Zolotuhin. The specimen is kept in ZISP in cabinet 217/drawer 3.

Other specimens (1♂ and 3♀♀) are considered paralectotypes of the taxon.

Figures

FIGURES 1–23. Types of Thyatirinae. 1, holotype of Cymatophora albicostata Bremer, 1861 (ZISP); 2, its reproduction from Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 8(1): pl. 5, fig. 6; 3, lectotype of Cymatophora octogesima var. caucasica Krulikowsky, 1901 (ZMKU: courtesy I. Kostjuk); 4, lectotype of Gonophora dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 (ZISP); 5, correct lectotype of Thyatira hedemanni Christoph, 1885 (ZISP); 6, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 2, fig. 3); 7, holotype of Thyatira derasa var. intermedia Bremer, [1864] (ZISP); 8, holotype of Tethea ocularis ssp. opa Zolotuhin, 1997 (ZISP); 9, lectotype of Thyatira moellendorfi Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 10—its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 12); 11, false lectotype of Asphalia nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 (NHML); 12, correct lectotype of A. nigrofascicula Graes. (ZISP); 13, so-called ‘type’ of Cymatophora tancrei Graeser, 1888, from ZMHU; 14, labels of C. tancrei enlarged and cover page of the publication issue; 15, false holotype of Cymatophora or var. terrosa Graeser, 1888 (ZMHU); 16, correct lectotype of C. or var. terrosa Graes. (ZISP); 17, lectotype of Thyatira violacea Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 18, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 11); 19, paratype of Nothoploca nigripunctata ssp. zolotarenkoi Dubatolov, 1987 (ZISP); 20, holotype of Cymatophora trifolium Alphéraky, 1895 (ZISP); 21, lectotype of Thyatira opalescens Alphéraky, 1897 (ZISP); 22, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 9, fig. 7); 23, location of Pung-Tung village on the map by Fixsen (1887).