O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 69. (Budapest, 2008)

ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 69 2008 pp. 201-212. New Noctuidae species from Asia (Lepidoptera) P. GYULAI

1 tk L. RONKAY

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H-3530Miskolc L, Mélyvölgy 13/A, Hungary. E-mail:garai.adrienne@ontsz.hu 2

Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13. E-mail: ronkay@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu Abstract - Description of Isochlora hoferi sp. n. (Tadjikistan, Hissar Mts), Metopodicha leily sp. n. (Iran, Eastern Alborz), Amphipyra micra sp. n. (Iran, Zagros Mts) and Hadula (Cardiestra) halophila sp. n. (Iran, Nemek lake) are given. With 21 figures. Key words - Noctuidae, new species, Isochlora, Metopodicha, Amphipyra, Hadula, Asia. INTRODUCTION Since the last years of the 20 century, the exploration of the Iranian Noctuidae fauna has become remarkably more intensive, due to several new international projects and numerous expeditions led to different areas of this vast country. Hungarian entomologists took a considerable part in this process, their expeditions provided vast material the treatment of which resulted in a number of newly discovered and described species (BENEDEK & RONKAY 2001^, b, GYULAI 2002, VARGA etal. 2002; GYULAI etal. 2002, RONKAY 2002, VARGA & GYULAI 2002, 2006, GYULAI & RONKAY 2006^, RONKAY & GYULAI 1997). The present paper is the continuation of this work, containing descriptions of three new species from Iran and, as an addition to the latest synopsis of the genus Isochlora STAUDINGER, 1899 (GYULAI & RONKAY 2006b), description of another new Isochlora species, /. hoferi is also given below. These new records represent further additions for a comprehensive checklist of the Iranian Noctuidae fauna, together with the fundamental works of BRANDT (1938, 1941), HACKER (1990), HACKER & MEINLRE (2001), FIBIGER (2001), EBERT & HACKER (2002), etc.