Taxonomic notes on two endemic geometrine genera from Middle Asia (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae)
Author
Viidalepp, Jaan
Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi, 5 D, EE- 51006 Tartu, ESTONIA
Author
Kostjuk, Igor
0000-0002-8656-5330
Zoological museum, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Volodymyrska str. 60, UA- 01601 Kyiv, UKRAINE. ikostjuk @ univ. kiev. ua; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8656 - 5330
ikostjuk@univ.kiev.ua
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-13
5052
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.9
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Hissarica postalbida
Viidalepp, 1988
Description of
Hissarica postalbida
. Wingspan
24–25 mm
(
Figs 1, 2
). Frons smooth, brown. Male antennae pectinate (
Fig. 17
), rami up to 0.43 mm long; rami shorter in female. Palpi shorter than diameter of eye in male, longer, reaching frons in female. Haustellum vestigial. Forewing venation: R1 from near to discal cell apex, fuses with Sc and R2, creating subcostal and radial accessory cells; R2–M1 stalked from cell apex, R2 diverges after M1, anastomoses with R1 and reaches costa. Veins M3 and CuA1 separate. Hindwing with frenulum lacking, Sc free, M2 tubular, Rs and M1 stalked, lower discocellular incurved, M3 separate. Hindtibia slender, with distal pair of spurs, without a hair pencil and without sexual differences. Forewing vivid blue-green, a white fascia slanting from near 4/5 of costa to near 2/3 of hindmargin. Hindwing white, with yellowish tint. Forewing costal edge is lined brownish yellow; the blue pigment fades in sunlight.
Male genitalia (
Fig. 14
): Uncus hooked, socii small, visible from lateral view, gnathos looped. Valva broad with flat, folded medial harpe, ventral margin angulate at middle, saccus rounded, longish. Juxta a plate between sacculi, laterally connected to the broad plate of transtilla: the anellar complex present. Aedeagus (phallus) slender, tubular, with small cornuti and external sclerotization. Sternite A8 posterior edge convex. Female genitalia (
Fig. 15
) membranous, antrum small, ductus bursae membraneous, longer than corpus bursae, signum as irregular trapezoid plate with a long dark stripe of unclear function (
Fig. 15a
) (a mutation in this population).