New Noctuidae (s. l.) species from the Korean fauna with description of a new species of Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae and Noctuidae)
Author
An, Jeong-Seop
Author
Choi, Sei-Woong
Author
Ronkay, László
text
Zootaxa
2013
3734
3
345
361
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.4
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1175-5326
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Protegira
songi
(Chen & Zhang, 1995)
(Plate 3, figs 19–20; gen. fig. 13)
Orthosia songi
Chen & Zhang, 1995
,
Sinozoologica
12: 242.
Type
locality:
China
, Shaanxi.
Protegira
songi
, Ronkay
et al.
, 2010,
Esperiana
15: 153.
Records from
Korea
.
1 male
,
1 female
, Prov. South Gyeongsang, Jiri-san, Machaeon-myun, Hamyang-gun,
760 m
,
127°38’08”E
,
35°21’18”N
,
7.v.2011
,
31.viii.2011
, leg. J.S. An (coll. MNU);
1 female
, Prov. South Jeolla, Mt. Jiri, Sandong-myun, Gurye-gun,
923m
,
127°31’23”E
,
35°19’22”N
,
7.v.2011
, leg. S.W. Choi (coll. MNU).
Diagnosis
. The species can be distinguished from the externally somewhat similar
Apamea
Ochsenheimer, 1816
species by its hairy eyes. The separation of
Protegira
songi
from the other Korean noctuids is rather easy as the most similar
Apamea
species (
A. chinensis
(Leech, 1900)
,
A. commixta
(Butler, 1881)
and
A. concinna
Leech, 1900
) do not occur in
Korea
. The genital structures of
P. songi
are highly autapomorphic (see the gen. fig. 13 and Ronkay
et al
. 2010), the genitalia of
Protegira
and
Apamea
are conspicuously different.
Distribution
. The species has a considerable area in the continental part of eastern
China
, eastwards from the Tibetan plateau, from Gansu to north-eastern Sichuan; it is known also from Hainan (Ronkay
et al
. 2010). The new records from Korean are the first locality data outside
China
. The Korean records confirmed the presence of the second generation of the species in the late summer period (Ronkay
et al.
2010); this is the first known
Orthosiini
species producing two generations per year.