A review of the genus Triphysa Zeller, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Satyridae)
Author
Dubatolov, Vladimir V.
0000-0001-7687-2102
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7687 - 2102
Author
Korb, Stanislav K.
Russian Entomological Society, Nizhny Novgorod Division P. O. Box 97, Nizhny Novgorod 603009 Russia.
stanislavkorb@list.ru
Author
Yakovlev, Roman V.
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Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9512 - 8709 * Corresponding author. E-mail: stanislavkorb @ list. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1120 - 424 X
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2023
2023-03-19
61
88
123
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2023.61.9
journal article
10.37828/em.2023.61.9
2336-9744
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Triphysa striatula striatula
Elwes, 1899
Figs. 1q–z
,
6a
,
22
.
Triphysa phryne striatula
Elwes, 1899
; Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 1899: 365.
Type
locality
:
Kuruktagh
near
Korla
[East Tian-Shan,
Xinjiang
,
China
]. “Lastly, there is a form found in the Kuruktagh near Korla, var.
Striatula, Stgr. (MSS.)
, which is distinguished by pale longitudinal striations on the fore-wing of the male. This form seems by the position of the spots to belong to phryne rather than to dohrnii” (
Elwes 1899
)
.
Description
. Forewing length
17−18 mm
. Upperside with light strokes between veins. Underside with expanded light pattern (in comparison to
T. phryne
). White centers of postdiscal spots can be absent on both forewing and hindwing undersides. In addition to the white lines on the upperside, the eyespot between cubital veins on the forewing underside is somewhat larger than its neighbors.
Male genitalia
. Aedeagus densely covered by teeth with caudally directed apex. Valva with much prolonged distal end and pointed obliquely truncated apex.
Four specimens
have been dissected.
Material examined
.
1 male
,
Kuruktag
(
ZISP
)
;
1 male
,
Kutscha
mont.,
Tian-Shan
,
3000 m
(
LNK
)
;
4 males
,
6 females
,
Korla
(
ZFMK
)
;
2 males
,
2 females
,
Asia
centr.,
Koterlbei
(
Korla
?),
April – Mai 1902
(
MHUB
)
;
5 males
,
3 females
,
Korla
(
MHUB
)
;
6 males
,
4 females
, Tian Shan,
Merzb.
(
ZSSM
)
;
9 males
,
15 females
,
Korla
,
Tancre
coll. (
ZSSM
)
;
2 males
,
2 females
,
Asia
centr.,
Koter
(bei
Korla
),
Mit.
V-1902
(
ZMHU
)
;
2 males
,
3 females
,
Korla
(
ZISP
)
;
1 male
,
1 female
,
Korla
, coll.
Deckert
(
ZISP
)
.
Distribution
.
China
:
Xinjiang
: East Tian-Shan, Kuruktag, Eastern part of Boro-Khoro.
Triphysa striatula urumtshiensis
Dubatolov, Korb et Yakovlev
,
ssp. n.
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Figs. 2a–b
,
6a
,
23
.
Description
.
Male
. Forewing length
20–21 mm
, wings dark-brown. Eyespots of the postdiscal row on hindwing underside are almost equal in size and very small. Very wide light suffusion along the veins is present, especially in the central cell (almost touching the internal stroke); strong overall expansion of light pattern is present. Postdiscal row of eyespots in forewing underside with band between cubital and other eyespots, cubital eyespots are slightly larger.
Female
. Forewing length
18−20 mm
. Upperside white or whitish, underside pattern as in male.
Diagnosis
. Slightly larger than nominotypical subspecies. There is no lightening on upperside like in
Triphysa striatula striatula
.
Figure 6.
Distribution map of
Triphysa
species
:
a
(above) – general map;
b
(below) – northern-eastern part of area of
T. nervosa nervosa
.
Material examined
.
Holotype
, male, Urumtchi (
ZISP
)
.
Paratypes
:
2 males
,
1 female
,
Turkestan
,
Urumtchi
,
Ruckbeil
, 1904 (
MHUB
)
;
1 male
,
Kazakhstan
,
Boro-Khoro Mts.
,
35 km
N of Dzharkent
,
Sarybel
environs,
1600–2000 m
,
30-VI-2010
, leg.
S.K. Korb
(
SKNN
)
;
1 male
,
1 female
,
Kuldscha
,
VII-1902
(
ZSSM
)
;
1 male
,
Urumtchi
(
ZISP
)
.
Distribution
.
China
:
Xinjiang Prov.
(Urumqi environs);
Kazakhstan
: eastern part of Boro-Khoro Mts.; very local. The isolation border between
T. striatula striatula
and
T. striatula urumtshiensis
ssp.n. is in high-mountainous glaciers of Boro-Khoro and Sarmin-Ula Mountain ridges.