Review Of The Species Groups Of The Genus Ctenoceratoda Varga, 1992 With Description Of Four New Species And A New Subspecies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
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Varga, Zoltán
Author
Gyulai, Péter
Author
Ronkay, Gábor
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Ronkay, László
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
2018
2018-03-30
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The
zetina
-group
Diagnosis – Large, robust moths, slightly resembling certain large
Apamea
species
, with long and only shortly pectinate male antennae and elongatetriangular forewings with regular but often faint maculation and crenulate crosslines. Abdominal brush organ well-developed, having “pockets”.
Male genitalia with strong, acute uncus, relatively short, falcate ampulla and inflated cucullus with deep incision above the terminal seta. Vesica is large, broad with long and broad stripe of fasciculate cornuti.
Checklist
Ctenoceratoda zetina zetina
(Staudinger, 1900,
Hadena
“zeta
var.”),
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. Gesellschaft Iris zu Dresden
12
: 342. Type-locality: [
China
or Kirghisia, Tien Shan region] “Thian or”;
Ctenoceratoda zetina rhodoptera
Varga, 1992
,
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
38
(1–2): 100, pl. 1, fig. 7. Type-locality:
Afghanistan
central, Band-i-Amir;
Ctenoceratoda gyulaii
Volynkin, 2012
,
Proceedings of the Tigirek State Natural Reserve
5
: 205, pl. 3, figs 5–6; pl. 15, figs 18–23; pl. 28, figs 3–4; pl. 33, fig. 3. Type-locality:
Russia
,
Altai Republic
, Kosh-Agach district.
Bionomics and distribution –
Ctenoceratoda zetina
is one of the most widely distributed species of the genus, known from the nearly entire Tien-Shan system, the Pamirs, the Karakoram and the
western Himalayas. Its
sister species occurs in the Russian and the Mongolian parts of the
Altai
Mts. The
possible overlap and/or hybridisation between them are unknown.