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Apamea nekrasovi, a new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) from the Pamir Mountains K. Mikkola, Z. Varga and P. Gyulai Apamea nekrasovi, a new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) from the Pamir Mountains - Description of Apamea nekrasovi sp. n. from the Eastern Pamir plateau. With 8 figures. INTRODUCTION This paper is the first one in a series of descriptions of numerous new taxa collected in Central Asiatic countries of the former Soviet Union. Authors demonstrate the faunistical richness of these areas and the necessity of further surveys with modern collecting methods. Besides the new taxa to be described in this series, also numerous insufficiently known species were collected, in some cases in large numbers. They will be discussed in some revisional papers concerning taxonomically problematic genera. Apamea nekrasovi sp. n. Holotype: male, Tadjikistan, E Pamir Mts, Murgab, 3600 m, 04-08.08.1994, Titov leg. (coll. P. Gyulai, deposited in HNHM, Budapest). Paratypes: 22 males and 27 females with the same data (coll. Gyulai), 1 male and 1 female with the same data (coll. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest = HNHM), 1 male and 1 female dto. (coll. Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki), 2 males and 2 females dto. (coll. Z. Varga, Dept. Zoology & Evolution, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen = ZIUD), 1 male and 1 female dto. (coll. G. Ronkay, Budapest), 1 male from the same locality, 05. 08. 1994, Murzin leg. (coll. Gyulai, Miskolc), 1 male and 1 female, "Pam[irski] Post, 21. VIF coll. John" (coll. ZIN, St. Petersburg), 1 female, East Pamir, Biostation Chechekty, 3860 m, 28. VII. 1983, V. Mikhajlov leg., 1 male, East Pamir, Zarechnaja, 35 km E Murgab, 3500 m, 2. VIII. 1983., L. Kaabek leg., 1 female, Central Pamir, Lake Yashilkul, 3700 m, 6. VIII. 1985, Nekrasov leg., 1 male and 3 female, East Pamir, Murgab, 3400 m, 27. VU. 1994., A. Sotschivko leg. (coll. A. V. Nekrasov, Moscow). Slides: males 6944 (Varga), 639 (Gyulai), 1112 (Nekrasov), KM 201288 (Mikkola), female 6945 (Varga) The new species is named in honour of Ing. A. V. Nekrasov (Moscow) who discovered several new and rare species of Noctuidae in the Central Asiatic regions of the former Soviet Union.