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Agrochola rupicapra kresnaensis ssp.n. Holotype: I if, Bulgaria, Struma valley, Kresna, 22.10.1981, leg. MÉSZÁROS et S ZAB OK Y , gen.prep. No. 402, L. RONKAY, in coll. Hung.Nat.Hist. Mus ., Budapest, Paratypes: 3 o? 16 o, from same locality and data, in coll. Hung.Nat.Hist. Mus. , Budapest; in coll. Z. MÉSZÁROS, Cs. SZABOKY and Z. VARGA. The nominate subspecies is very variable in both colouring and design according to the descriptions and figures published. Comparisons were made - as specimens from type locality were not available - with specimens originating from the Northwestern part of Iraq (Zawita), which are more or less similar to the original descriptions and their genitalia are in good agreement with the genitalia described by BOURSIN (1956), except that the end part of valvae is slimmer and more elongated. The shape of the wings is less elongated, the tip is more rounded. It is remarkable that the series consisting of twenty specimens is very consistent in both basic colouring and motives. The basic colour of the fore wing is dull scarlet yellow, its typical character is its light, but readily observable reddish shade, which is strongest on the margins and in medial area. The motives are pale, hardly more whitish than the basic colour, their dark contours are hardly conspicuous, the medial line is also pale. The orbicular is not that small and flattened, the reniform is also wide, the black filling of its lower part is very strong. The hind wing is dark brownish grey, sometimes more light, in this case the darker marginal and medial areas are well contoured (Table 1.). On the underside of the wings reddish irroration can be observed again on the marginal area and at the base of cilia, it can be sometimes quite conspicuous. The inner area is more strongly irrorated with grey, the discoidal lunule is square, dark. Head and scapulae are reddish brown, with some red shade; with greyish hairs on the middle part of collar. Genitalia of the specimens of Iraq are shown on Figures 1-3, those of the specimens from Bulgaria on Figs. 4-6. Consistent differences are as follows: the harpe in the new subspecies is much more squat, the head-like shape at the end is much bigger and rounded as compared to the handle, in the nominate subspecies the handle is longer, the head smaller. The fulture inferior is widening much more towards its base. The dentation of the costalis appendage (Fig. 2. and 5.) is different, in ssp. kresnaensis is even, while in the other case one-two stronger dents can be found at the distal end. No significant differences were found in other parts of the genitalia and the aedoeagus. Taxonomic and Zoogeographie notes The genus Agrochola, which had been treated as a unit earlier, has been partly or fully divided by some authors (for example BERIO, 1981). Their dividing, however, was based only on a few species or group of species, and they did not take into consideration the very important data from Asia Minor. The genus in question is indeed polytypical in respect of male genitalia: some distinct series can be observed which join to the basic types found in Cuculliinae. In order to decide, whether these groups should be classified as subgenera in the genus Agrochola or distinct genera grouped into a tribus, however, a full revision of the genus is needed. At the moment we think proper to treat the above two species included in the genus Agrochola. In connection with the mentioned two species it is worth while to deal with a zoogeographical problem as well. In this genus with the exception of the only more or less widespread A. kindermanni Fischer v. Rösslerstamm, vicarizing (from the middle and Western part of the Balkans) relatives are known of the typical species occurring in the Pontus and Asia Minor (deleta Staudinger -_thujn^ri_ Boursin, lactiflora Draudt - wautieri Dufay, and wolfschlägeri Boursin, which latter shows a non-overlapping area with the pair of species kindermanni F. v R. -pauli Staudinger). At the same time the two species reported on here show by no means differences at the specific level in respect to the nominate subspecies, and they are not known from Yugo-Macedonia, the type-locality of the abovementioned endemic species, which is not far in a straight line from the the site of our collection. The situation is the same in the case of Griposia pinkeri Kobes mentioned in the introduction. On the basis of the above examples one can hypothesize that for certain Table 1. A: Agrochola gratiosa Staudinger (c? Bulgaria, Kresna) - B: Agrochola gratiosa Staudinger (9, Bulgaria, Kresna) - C: Agrochola gratiosa Staudinger (a? Amasia) - D: Agrochola gratiosa Staudinger (9, Asia Minor) - E: Agrochola rupicapra kresnaensis ssp.n. (of paratype, Bulgaria, Kresna) - F: Agrochola rupicapra kresnaensis ssp.n. (p, paratype, Bulgaria, Kresna)
