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Sandy yellowish-grey moths with wing span 25-26 mm. Dark irroration stronger on wings, forewing postmedial fascia broader at costa; wing markings are less reduced than in
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. Underside of wings almost monotonous, greyish.
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The genus
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is characterised by their quadripectinate male antennae (i.e. there are two pairs of long rami on each antennomere) and by the presence of two accessory cells in the forewing venation. All species of
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have the number of their hind tibial spurs reduced, with exception of
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,
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,
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Trusch &amp; Hausmann and the new species
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia crypta</emphasis>
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sp. n. Wings of
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and
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, sp. n. are scaled yellowish-grey, forewings with fragmented postmedial and antemedial fasciae.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia vastaria</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia crypta</emphasis>
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, sp. n. are superficially similar but differing in characteristics of male and female genitalia, as discussed below.
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, sp. n. This new species is characterized with a wing span of 25-26 mm (Fig.
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,
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). The Uch-Aral male is grey with a conspicuous dark grey pattern and dusting (Fig.
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); its hindwing postmedial line is outwardly dentate at the vein M3 and the forewing medial area seems relatively broader. West Kazakh moths (Fig.
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,
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) of
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are evenly sand-coloured, yellowish-grey and with sparse grey maculation. The sandy grey ground colour of the moths from the Balkhash region is more intensively covered by brown spots and the postmedial line is more suffused on hindwings (Fig.
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,
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).
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The distal edge of the valva in the male genitalia is roundly bulged at the saccular corner in
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(Fig.
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Hausmann, A." journalOrPublisher="Apollo Books, Stenstrup" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" refId="B5572631" refString="Hausmann, A., 2004. Geometrid moths of Europe. Volume 2. Sterrhinae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup" title="Geometrid moths of Europe. Volume 2. Sterrhinae." year="2004">Hausmann 2004</bibRefCitation>
: Fig. 174b), but it is straight in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. crypta</emphasis>
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, sp. n. (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F5574615" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">b</figureCitation>
). Female genitalia of moths are also different; moths of western population have the seventh segment of the abdomen and the tubular sclerotisation of the ductus bursae distinctly longer in moths of the western population (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F5574625" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">a</figureCitation>
) and the forked sclerite in the corpus bursae is also larger in western moths than in those moths from the eastern Kazakh population (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F5574626" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">b</figureCitation>
).
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The differences in male and female genitalia structures and wing pattern between the western and eastern Kazakh populations justify the separation of the Balkhash lake shore populations as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia crypta</emphasis>
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Viidalepp &amp; Kostjuk, sp. n.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia jacularia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) has a very different, clear and contrasting wing pattern but similar male genitalia (with the distal margin of the valva smoothly rounded) and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. tabestana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Trusch, R." journalOrPublisher="Nota Lepidopterologica" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" pagination="7 - 16" refId="B5572672" refString="Trusch, R., Hausmann, A., 2007. A new species of the genus Rhodostrophia Huebner, 1823 from Iran (Geometridae: Sterrhinae). Nota Lepidopterologica 30: 7 - 16" title="A new species of the genus Rhodostrophia Huebner, 1823 from Iran (Geometridae: Sterrhinae)." volume="30" year="2007">Trusch and Hausmann 2007</bibRefCitation>
) has quite similar wings and colouration, but the distal margins of valvae are not straight; rather they are slightly concave. Genetically nearest species:
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia jacularia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(3.7%). The distally truncate shape of valva and the presence of a cornutus on the vesica in
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. jacularia" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" rank="species" species="jacularia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. jacularia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. crypta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, sp. n.,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. vastaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. tabestana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
allow them to be combined together in the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia jacularia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species group.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Etymology</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">
The species name &quot;
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&quot;, as a noun, is a derivative from &quot;cryptic&quot; ~hidden.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" type="ecology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Ecology</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">The moths of the new species were collected in steppe landscapes.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" type="distribution of rhodostrophia vastaria and r. crypta, sp. n.">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">
Distribution of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia vastaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="R. crypta" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" rank="species" species="crypta">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">R. crypta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, sp. n.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">
The distribution area of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia vastaria</emphasis>
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is fragmented between Turkmenbashi in Turkmenistan, the Ustjurt plateau in western Kazakhstan and the southern Urals (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia crypta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, sp. n. is an eastern Kazakh species. Both species do not appear in the recent review of Chinese
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462">Rhodostrophia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Cui, Le" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="52462" pagination=": 357" refId="B5572640" refString="Cui, Le, Xue, Dayong, Jiang, Nan, 2019. Description of two new species of Rhodostrophia Huebner, 1823 from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Zootaxa 4563 (2): 357" title="Description of two new species of Rhodostrophia Huebner, 1823 from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)" volume="4563" year="2019">Cui et al. 2019</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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