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

ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 69 2008 pp. 213-219. A new species of Pseudohadena Alphéraky, 1889 from Iran (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae) A. SHIRVANI

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, L. RONKAY

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, K. KAMALI

1 & A. A. TALEBI

1 1 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: shirvanias@yahoo.com 2 Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: ronkay@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu Abstract - Description of Pseudohadena zahedana sp. n. from Iran is given. The formerly unknown male of P. deserticola RONKAY, VARGA et FÁBIÁN, 1995 is described and illustrated. With 7 figures. Keywords - Noctuidae, Pseudohadena, new species, Iran. INTRODUCTION The Pseudohadena generic complex is one of the large trifine lineages, comprising more than 50 described species. The genus Pseudohadena ALPHÉRAKY, 1889 as a monophyletic unit have been redescribed by RONKAY etal. (1995), and divided into three subgenera, Pseudohadena ALPHÉRAKY, 1889, Jaxartia PÜNGELER, 1914 and Pseudopseustis HAMPSON, 1910. The generic apomorphies indicating the monophyly of the lineage are the armature of the fore tibiae consisting of 4-7 strong, thorn- or claw-like spines, the sclerotised, finger-shaped or bar-like editum being close to posterior end of clasper, a most often narrow cone-shaped membranous diverticula positioned subapically on the vesica, and the basally heavily sclerotised, plate-like ovipositor lobes, with a circumferrand band of long hair-like setae medially on the ovipositor lobes.