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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-13 5052 1 137 144 journal article 4026 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.9 07baf883-204c-4608-a8b3-924711319ef3 1175-5326 5566148 3E6DA6AB-32EB-473A-BD67-C8C59D4357BF Hissarica and “ Hierochthonia ” Prout, 1912 The features of southern Central Asian Hierochthonia species ( H . pulverata Warren, 1901 ) ( Fig. 22 ) and H . semitaria (Püngeler, 1902)) stressed by Hausmann (1996) are missing in Middle Asian species “ H.” alexandraria , e.g. the long postvaginal sclerite in the female genitalia, or the spoon-shaped aedeagus with a complex apical ornamentation in the male (compare Figs 22 and 23 ). The characteristics of Hierochthonia alexandraria are reviewed below. The plate-shaped medial harpe ( Fig. 14 ) and the signum with a long filiform ridge in Hissarica ( Fig. 15 ) do not have morphological equivalents in southern species. Again, the long lamella postvaginalis and roundish dilations lateral to it figured by Hausmann (1996 , Figs 144, 145) for southern Hierochthonia spp. are absent in Middle Asian species ( Figs 24, 25 ).