scholarly journals The noctuid moth Xylomoia graminea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) new to the Romanian fauna

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Constantin Corduneanu ◽  
Cătălin-Dumitrel Balan ◽  
Cristina Vasiliţa ◽  
Ovidiu‑Alin Popovici
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Noctuid Moth ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

In this paper, new data concerning the occurrence and distribution of Xylomoia graminea (Graeser, 1889) in Romania are given. Pictures of specimen and male genitalia are provided.

A new species of Dichagyris Lederer, 1857 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-600
Author(s):  
PETER GYULAI ◽  
AIDAS SALDAITIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Wing Pattern ◽  
High Mountains ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Ground Colour ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
A New Species

Dichagyris is a diverse genus with a Holarctic distribution. Only a few taxa of the subgenus Albocosta Fibiger & Lafontaine, 1997 occur in the northwesternmost part of the Oriental region. The genus is most diverse in Turkey, Iran and the Central Asiatic high mountains. However, there is a distinct Sino-Tibetan group of species, possibly representing an undescribed subgenus. However, this idea is provisional and awaits revision of the genus. For present purposes, we assign these species to the subgenus Dichagyris. They share the following putative synapomorphies: black, dark brown or dark greyish forewing ground colour (with one exception), with obscure, reduced wing pattern and a broad-based, short, conical harpe in the male genitalia. Species of this group can be subdivided to two species-groups. In the astigmata-group which was mentioned for the first time by Hreblay et al. (1998) but without description or diagnosis from the minuta-group, the vesica is elongate and tubular (males), the appendix bursae and corpus bursae are long, sack–like, almost equal in size (females). In the minuta-group, the vesica is more ample than in the astigmata-group, and coiled, and the appendix bursae is globular and much shorter than the corpus bursae. The astigmata-group includes Dichagyris astigmata (Hampson, 1906), D. gansuensis Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998, D. geochroides (Boursin, 1948) and D. vargazoli (Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001). The minuta-group comprises D. minuta Hreblay & Plante, 1998 and D. kormos Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001. During a research expedition in Sichuan in 2019, the existence of a third species in the minuta-group was recognized, which is described here. In addition, the female and its genitalia of D. gansuensis, which was described by Hreblay & Ronkay (1998) based on a single male, are illustrated here for the first time. 

A new Blepharosis species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (3) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
PETER GYULAI ◽  
AIDAS SALDAITIS ◽  
ANDRO TRUUVERK ◽  
GINTAS VAITONIS
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Flight Period ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Western Sichuan ◽  
Coi Sequences ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

In 2017 the second author encountered a rather small Noctuidae species in western Sichuan (China) with unicolorous brown forewings and ochre reniform stigmata. Initially the six males collected resembled the taxa of the genus Cerapteryx Curtis, 1833, but the more gracile body, the finely serrate (and not bipectinated) male antennae and the late flight period indicated the need of further study. Dissection of the male genitalia revealed that the peculiar species belongs to the genus Blepharosis Boursin, 1964. The most recent review with descriptions of new Blepharosis taxa is available from Hreblay, Ronkay & Plante (1998). Comparison of external and genitalia features of the newly found taxon with the known species confirmed that it represents an undescribed species, which is very different externally from all but one of the members of Blepharosis. Regarding the configuration of the male genitalia, the only similar species is Blepharosis anachoretoides (Alphéraky, 1892), displaying only surprisingly small differences between the two species. The large difference between their barcodes (13.5% difference in the COI sequences) indicate however their specific distinctness despite their similar male genitalia structures. 

A taxonomic revision of the fruit-piercing and blood-sucking moth genus Calyptra Ochsenheimer [=Calpe Treitschke] (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bänziger
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Crossing Experiments ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

AbstractThe genus Calyptra [=Calpe] is revised with comments on and illustrations of the male genitalia and habitus of all species and subspecies, together with a key to the species and tables summarizing pertinent characters. Culyptra is redescribed and compared to closely related genera (Africalpe, Oraesia, Percalpe, Plusiodonta). 17 species are recognized (albivirgata, bicolor, eustrigata, fasciata [=labilis], fletcheri, gruesa, hokkaida [=hoenei], imperialis, lata [=aureola], minuticornis, nyei. ophideroides, orthograpta [=striata], parva, pseudobicolor, thalictri [=sodalis], 5 synonymies are newly established or confirmed. Crossing experiments proved novaepommeraniae a subspecies of minutiornis; subspecies pallida is identical to thalictri form centralitalica, while its aberration intensiva is an infrasubspecific name. The species aeneofusa, albescens, argyrolampra, argyrosema, cerne. glaucocheila. igneceps, wintgensi are transferred to Oraesia, nubifera to Africalpe, icterica to Arcyophora, sittaca to Hemiceratoides and dubiosa to Odontestis; emarginata, excavata, rectistria are confirmed to belong to Oraesia and canadensis to Percalpe.

Description of a new genus and two new species of cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

2004 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-834
Author(s):  
J. Donald Lafontaine ◽  
James T. Troubridge
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
North America ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

AbstractAlastriagen. nov. is described, and Callierges tropicalis Schaus is transferred to the genus. Alastria chicosp. nov. is described from western North America and Alastria machosp. nov. is described from Costa Rica. We provide illustrations of the adults and genitalia of all three species, as well as the male genitalia of two related genera, Nedra Clarke and Actinotia Hübner.

scholarly journals Apamea yunnana sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from northern Yunnan, China

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kononenko ◽  
Kauri Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Noctuid Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

A new noctuid species, Apamea yunnana sp. n. is described from the yunnan Province, S China. The moth is superficially similar to A. ferrago (Eversmann) and to the recently described A. nekrasovi Mikkola, Varga & Guylai but differs from these in the details of the forewing pattern and more so in the structure of genitalia. The adult and the male genitalia of the new species are illustrated.

A new species of Athaumasta Hampson, 1906 from eastern Kazakhstan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4205 (3) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN ◽  
OLEG PEKARSKY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Tien Shan ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan

The name Athaumasta was introduced by Hampson (1906) as replacement for Thaumasta Staudinger, 1871 (nec. Gistl). Athaumasta is a small Bryophilinae genus found in southern Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russian Far East, Korea and China. By the male genitalia structure Athaumasta is very close to Victrix Staudinger and Bryophila Treitschke, but characteristic forewing pattern, strong pectinate of male antennae, narrow and dorso-lateral flattened uncus, and distally narrowed and apically pointed valvae are characteristic for the genus. The genus includes six described species, one of which has recently been described (Volynkin 2012), and many species are still undescribed. The species cortex Alphéraky, 1887 was incorrectly included to Athaumasta by Poole (1989), and transferred to the genus Parvispinia Babics, Kononenko & Saldaitis by Babics et al. (2012). The species miltina Püngeler, 1902 distributed in the Tien Shan mountain massif (Püngeler 1902; Lehmann & Bergmann 2005) has appearance very close to Athaumasta, but male antennae much less pectinate (Fig. 12). It was treated by Poole (1989) and Lehmann & Bergmann (2005) as a member of the genus Oederemia Hampson (= Victrix), but was not mentioned by Fibiger et al. (2009) in the checklist of Palaearctic taxa of the genus. The male genitalia of miltina (Fig. 22) differ from those of all other Athaumasta by the broad uncus, apically broadened and rounded valvae, and presence of a torn in cornutus in vesica, whereas in Athaumasta uncus is narrow, valvae are apically narrowed and pointed, cornutus is plate-like or absent. By the male genitalia structure, miltina resembles the genus Victrix, subgenus Rasihia Koҫak, but have broader uncus and strongly different appearance. Thus, the genus position of miltina is unclear. Here we treated miltina as a member of Athaumasta (sensu lato), but its genus position will be revised later in a further revision of Eurasiatic Bryophilinae. 

A review of genera Cryphia Hübner, 1818 and Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 within the mountainous Central Asia: a case of too many poorly described species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4859 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-595
Author(s):  
STANISLAV K. KORB
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Wing Pattern ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Pattern Structure ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

The genera Cryphia Hübner, 1818 and Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 in mountainous Central Asia (in the range of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) are reviewed. Both molecular and morphological data are used. A short morphometric test of male genitalia within 3 widely distributed and common species processed (Bryophila sordida Staudinger, 1900, B. rueckbeili Boursin, 1953, B. plumbeola (Staudinger, 1881)); the vesica is quite variable, spike is less variable, valva is highly variable. The CO1 differences between studied species in Central Asia are over at least 0,02; the p-distances inside of B. plumbeola clade are no more than 0,003 and this is clear evidence of their conspecificity. The lectotypes of Bryophila miltophaea Hampson, 1908 and Bryophila subliterata Filipjev, 1931 are designated. The following new statuses are applied: Bryophila eucta hannemanni Boursin, 1961, stat. n., B. plumbeola hampsoni (Draudt, 1931), stat. n., B. plumbeola miltophaea (Hampson, 1908), stat. n., B. plumbeola puengeleri (Draudt, 1931), stat. n., B. plumbeola vilis (Hampson, 1908), stat. n. A new subspecies, B. raptricula montanotricula Korb, ssp. n., is described from Katta-Kaindy Mts., 8.5 km S of Englchek, 2509 m, N 41°57’518 E 79° 7’782. It differs from the subspecies B. raptricula aksuensis by its wing pattern (structure of the middle band and of the white strokes) and by DNA (CO1sequence). A list of Cryphia and Bryophila species erroneously placed into the mountainous Central Asiatic fauna is compiled. 

THE GENUS EUXOA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) IN NORTH AMERICA: I. SUBGENERA OROSAGROTIS, LONGIVESICA, CHORIZAGROTIS, PLEONECTOPODA, AND CRASSIVESICA

1970 ◽  
Vol 102 (S67) ◽  
pp. 7-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
North American ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
Adequate Analysis

AbstractThe large and complex genus Euxoa is divided into six subgenera: Orosagrotis, Longivesica, Euxoa, Chorizagrotis, Pleonectopoda, and Crassivesica. Orosagrotis and Chorizagrotis have until now been considered as valid noctuid genera by many workers. Longivesica and Crassivesica are here described as new. The taxonomy and distribution of North American species in all subgenera except the very extensive subgenus Euxoa are considered in the present paper. Only 49 species in a probable North American Euxoa fauna of some 200 species are included in the five subgenera reviewed here, however.Within the genus, species have been segregated into subgenera and species groups largely on the basis of the structure of the male genitalia, and particularly on the conformation of the vesica of the male. Keys to subgenera, species groups, and species are presented. No new species are described. Subspecies are not formally considered because an adequate analysis of the often complex geographic variation is beyond the scope of this paper.

Description of Mythimna serradague n.sp. from Madeira (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Niels L. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
New Material ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

AbstractRebel (1940) listed 34 species of Noctuidae for Madeira. Since then finds of 7 further species (2 endemic) have been published. New material, partly placed at my disposal in order to contribute to a revision of the list of Madeiran Lepidoptera, partly collected by myself, contains 8 additional species of Noctuidae, one of which was hitherto unknown. In the present paper this species is described as Mythimna serradaguae and placed in the Mythimna sicula (Treitschke) group. Photographs of the male genitalia of allied species: M. saucesa Pinker, M. sicula (Treitschke), M. congrua (Hübner), and M. loreyi (Duponchel) are presented. The 15 species of Noctuidae new to the fauna of Madeira since 1940 are enumerated. Comments on these will appear in a revised list together with corrections to some of the taxa mentioned in the previous list (1940).

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