Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
Author
Marabuto, Eduardo
text
Arquivos Entomolóxicos
2022
2022-12-18
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10.5281/zenodo.12812142
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18.
Nola cucullatella
(Linnaeus, 1758)
—
Tourém, Montalegre,
Vila Real
.
860 m
a.s.l.
MGRS
: 29TNG9139.
16.VIII.2016
.
Eduardo Marabuto
leg.
On
a lit window.
Gen.
det.
A West-Palaearctic species with a wide European distribution which is replaced by sister species
Nola tutulella
Zerny,
1927
in the southern Atlanto-Mediterranean region, particularly in southern
Iberia
and
North Africa
(
Hacker
et al
., 2012
). The two species have a very similar habitus and likely have been extensively misidentified in the past and the contact zone is still not well known. In fact, most of the Iberian knowledge of these two species still comes from
Vives Moreno
(1990)
, who while revising the species group in the region, defined a distribution later replicated by
Fibiger
et al
. (2009)
and
Hacker
et al
. (2012)
. Accordingly, all old records of
N. cucullatella
from
Portugal
, which come from the southern half of the country, were transferred to
N. tutulella
by
Vives Moreno
(1990)
. In nearby
Spain
, the species is known at least from León and Burgos in
Castilla y León
(
Magro & Jambrina Pérez, 2015
), but may be being repeatedly confused with
N. tutulella
in
Cáceres
(Blázquez Caselles, 2014).
Here, the species is reinstated as occurring in
Portugal
upon a worn specimen whose diagnosis was confirmed through dissection and ecological setting of its locality. In spite of no known occurrences in Galicia, the species is likely present in this Spanish region.