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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12.
Idaea alicantaria
(
Reisser, 1963
)
—
Castro Marim,
Faro
.
2 m
a.s.l.
MGRS
: 29SPB3821.
12.VI.2020
.
Eduardo Marabuto
leg.
Daytime
spotting.
Several
specimens. (
Fig. 2h
)
.
Iberian endemic species with two main populations (Alicante-Almería area and in the Ebro valley) and small, satellite ones in Ibiza (
Balearic islands
) and the left bank of Guadalquivir river (
Cádiz
) (
Hausmann, 2004
;
Redondo
et al
., 2009
) in thermomediterranean, halophitic environments at low altitude. Interestingly, the species has not yet been found in the well researched coastal protected areas of the HuelvA province in
SpAin
And this record thus represents A
100 km
rAnge extension of the species’ distribution to the west, although its presence in the country had already been hypothesized in the original description (
Reisser, 1963
).