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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.122.1213" ID-GBIF-Dataset="9706366f-377c-45a0-946b-41eab49ce47e" ID-PMC="PMC3187673" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-122-45" ID-PubMed="21998527" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2011" ModsDocID="1313-2970-122-45" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 122" ModsDocTitle="Cossidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)" checkinTime="1451249967082" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Borth, Robert, Ivinskis, Povilas, Saldaitis, Aidas & Yakovlev, Roman" docDate="2011" docId="E80C11C1A84084E189F760B4A096CAE8" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 122: 45-69" docOrigin="ZooKeys 122" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.122.1213" docTitle="Meharia hackeri Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="49" masterDocId="FFDF9A6BFFC36A61FFB2C437FFA7D26B" masterDocTitle="Cossidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)" masterLastPageNumber="69" masterPageNumber="45" pageNumber="48" updateTime="1668151998661" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Cossidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Borth, Robert</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Ivinskis, Povilas</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Saldaitis, Aidas</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Yakovlev, Roman</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2011</mods:date>
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<mods:number>122</mods:number>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.122.1213</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-122-45</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152030458" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:730024CA-3646-4660-9FBD-C307773D0E94" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E80C11C1A84084E189F760B4A096CAE8" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="49" pageId="3" pageNumber="48">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:730024CA-3646-4660-9FBD-C307773D0E94" authority="Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev" class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="3" pageNumber="48">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 9, 10, 13, 14
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="48">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="48">Holotype ♀ (Fig. 9), NE Socotra Island, Wadi Difarroha, North side, 19 January 2010. leg. A. Saldaitis (deposited in MWM/ZSM); (slide No PI 2011/1) Paratypes: 3 ♀ (Fig. 10), S Socotra Island, Wadi Difarroha, South side, 15 January 2010. leg. A. Saldaitis; (coll. ASV; MWM/ZSM); (slide No BJ 1523).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="48" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="48">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The new species differs from the related species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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Wiltshire, 1982 (Figs 8, 12) by forewing pattern, DNA and distribution. In
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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, the basal spot at the costal wing margin is missing.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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has a straight basal fascia at the costal wing margin for
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<normalizedToken originalValue="¼">1/4</normalizedToken>
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the length of forewing and a narrow white fascia, with a wide interruption antemedially and a narrow interruption tornally, running along the entire inner margin.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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has no such fascia, but has a wide subterminal band. DNA barcodes clearly separate
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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from
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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. Three identical sequences of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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were compared to those of a single
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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specimen resulting in a significant 7.48% variation.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="48">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia acuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acuta">Meharia acuta</taxonomicName>
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is distributed in the Arabic peninsula,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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is endemic to Socotra Island.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="48">Description.</paragraph>
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Female: Forewing costal margin length of holotype 10 mm, wingspan 21 mm; forewing length of paratypes 11 mm, wingspan 22 mm; antennae slightly longer than half the length of forewing; bipectinate, color white, black at base; head and tegular yellowish-white; labial palpi yellowish brown, white at base; ground colour of forewings yellowish-brown with white longitudinal fascia forming wing pattern, basal fascia in the costal area straight, running to
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the length of forewing, curved fascia extending medially from inner margin to ⅔ the length of forewing, its extension ends at terminal wing margin, medially the fascia and its interrupted portion in terminal area bordered by dark brown scales with black inserts; narrow white fascia, widely i
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="49" start="start">nterrupted</pageBreakToken>
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antemedially and narrowly interrupted tornally, runs along the entire inner margin, cilia yellowish-white, ventral forewing brown; hindwing greyish-yellow, cilia light brown, ventral hindwing brown.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Male genitalia: unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Female genitalia (Figs 13, 14): Papilla analis triangular, covered with short, thin, very long setae; apophysis posterioris about the same length as papilla analis; apophysis anterioris very short, broad, with V-shaped sclerotisation apically; ostium concave; antrum weakly sclerotised basally with a loop forming very narrow ductus bursae; corpus bursae not sclerotised, shaped like a small sac.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="49" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Bionomics and distribution.</paragraph>
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Known only from the central part of Socotra Island.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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is likely endemic to Socotra Island. All specimens were collected in mid-January;
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia hackeri" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hackeri">Meharia hackeri</taxonomicName>
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females were attracted to light and appear to have a very local distribution as the species was discovered only in Difarroha Valley (Fig. 31). The new species was collected in the central part of the country in an oasis-type valley dominated by various tree and shrub species such as:
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Jatropha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Jatropha unicostata" order="Malpighiales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="unicostata">Jatropha unicostata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Lycium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Lycium socotranum" order="Solanales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="socotranum">Lycium socotranum</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Thymelaeaceae" genus="Gnidia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Gnidia socotrana" order="Malvales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="socotrana">Gnidia socotrana</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Buxaceae" genus="Buxus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Buxus hildebrandtii" order="Buxales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hildebrandtii">Buxus hildebrandtii</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Croton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Croton socotranus" order="Malpighiales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="socotranus">Croton socotranus</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Lythraceae" genus="Punica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Punica protopunica" order="Myrtales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="protopunica">Punica protopunica</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Moraceae" genus="Ficus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ficus vasta" order="Rosales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vasta">Ficus vasta</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Euphorbia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Euphorbia socotrana" order="Malpighiales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="socotrana">Euphorbia socotrana</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName genus="Jathropha" lsidName="Jathropha unicostata" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" rank="species" species="unicostata">Jathropha unicostata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe perryi" order="Asparagales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="perryi">Aloe perryi</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apocynaceae" genus="Adenium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Adenium obesum" order="Gentianales" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obesum">Adenium obesum</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Miller, AG" journalOrPublisher="Edinburgh" pageId="14" pageNumber="59" pagination="1 - 556" title="Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1" year="1996">Miller and Cope 1996</bibRefCitation>
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). It flies with several other Socotra Archipelago endemic moths such as
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" genus="Meharia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meharia yakovlevi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yakovlevi">Meharia yakovlevi</taxonomicName>
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Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2010, (
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<taxonomicName family="Cossidae" lsidName="" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" rank="family">Cossidae</taxonomicName>
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),
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(Hampson, 1900), (
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<taxonomicName family="Arctiidae" lsidName="" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" rank="family">Arctiidae</taxonomicName>
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),
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Cerocala" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cerocala socotrensis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="socotrensis">Cerocala socotrensis</taxonomicName>
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Hampson, 1899,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Agrotis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Agrotis brachypecten" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brachypecten">Agrotis brachypecten</taxonomicName>
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Hampson, 1899,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Plecoptera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plecoptera butkevicii" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="butkevicii">Plecoptera butkevicii</taxonomicName>
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Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Acantholipes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acantholipes canofusca" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="canofusca">Acantholipes canofusca</taxonomicName>
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Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Stenosticta" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stenosticta wiltshirei" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wiltshirei">Stenosticta wiltshirei</taxonomicName>
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Hacker, Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2010 (
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<taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="4" pageNumber="49" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="49">The new species name is dedicated to Hermann Hacker, a prominent German lepidopterist, who has contributed much to the investigation of macro-moths of the Arabian peninsula and Africa.</paragraph>
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