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Etymology - The new species is named after the daughter of Mr. HOSSEIN RAVANYAR, guide of ADRIENNE GARAI and PÉTER GYULAI during their four expeditions to Iran. Acknowledgements - The authors would like to express their thanks to Ms. ADRIENNE GARAI-GYULAI for her essential help during the expeditions and the preparation of the manuscript; to Mr. GÁBOR RONKAY and Mr. TlBOR CSŐVÁRI for the excellent colour and genital images; to Mr. JÁNOS BABICS, Mr. TAMÁS HÁCZ, Mr. GERGELY PETRÁNYI and Mr. LEVENTE ÁBRAHÁM for the habitat photos, to Mr. HOSSEIN RAVANYAR for his guidance during the four expeditions of the senior author and, at last but not least, to Mr. BALÁZS BENEDEK, Mr. FRANZ HOFER, Mr. TAMÁS HÁCZ and Mr. AIDAS SALDAITIS for the loan of their material examined. REFERENCES BENEDEK, B. & RONKAY, L. 2001 a: On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia. - Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 93: 199-206. BENEDEK, B. & RONKAY, L. 2001b: Two new Noctuidae species from Iran (Lep.). - Folia entomologica hungarica 62: 191-198. BRANDT, W. 1938: Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Iran. Neue Gattungen, Arten und Formen (Macrolepidoptera). - Entomologische Rundschau 55: 497-505, 517-523, 548-554, 558-561, 567-569. BRANDT, W. 1941: Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Iran (3). Neue Agrotiden, nebst Faunenverzeichnissen. - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft 31(3): 835-863. EBÉRT, G. & HACKER, H. H. 2002: Beitrag zur Fauna der Noctuidae des Iran: Verzeichnis der Bestände im Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe Taxonomische bemerkungen und Bescreibung neuer Taxa (Noct., Lep.). - Esperiana 9: 237-409. FlBIGER, M. 2001: A new species of the genus Lophoterges Hampson, 1906 from Iran: L. mariannae sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Cuculliinae). - Acta zoologica Academiae scientiarium hungaricae 46(4): 333-336. GYULAI, P. 2002. Four new Hadula Staudinger, 1889 taxa from Asia (Lep. Noctuidae). Esperiana 9: 231-236. GYULAI, P. & RONKAY, L. 2001: The Noctuidae material collected by Peter Gyulai & Adrienne Garai in the Qinghai region, China, in 1999 (Lepidoptera). - Esperiana 8: 655-700. GYULAI, P. & RONKAY, L. 2006^: New Noctuidae taxa from Iran and Turkey (Lep.) Esperiana 12: 255-266.