Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 66. (Budapest 1974)
Vojnits, A.: Abraxini and Semiothisini species from Mongolia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae: Ennominae)
brownish yellow. Forewing with three transverse stripes : inner stripe brown or dark brown, subtending a right angle with dorsum, median stripe wide, brown, rather indistinct, shadowy, subtending an obtuse angle with dorsum and an acute angle with termen, outer stripe linear, dark brown, sinuous, fronted (towards termen) by a brown shade. Discal spot elongate, dark brown. Hindwing with an almost entirely evanescent inner and a very narrow, pale brown, sinuous outer stripe. Discal spot oval, pale brown. Underside brownish yellow, marmorate, pattern elements hardly discernible. Cilia short, yellowish brown, with dark brown lines, shiny. Fig. 2. Female genitalia of A: Tephrina arenacearia mongolica ssp. n., and B: Tephrina kaszabi, sp. n. Genitalia. — Males : Valva bifid, anterior section longer, its distally widened part broken about the middle; posterior section short, terminating in a squat spine. Uncus long, thick, apically obtuse. Vinculum wide, slightly convex (Fig. 1 : B). —-Females : Wall of corpus bursae soft, containing a large, stellate, sclerotized structure. Antrum elongatelly cordiform, strongly sclerotized. Apophyses robust. Papillae anales long and rather large (Fig. 2: B). Differentia specifica. The new species differs from its apparently nearest relation, Tephrina murinaria DENIS et SCHIFFERMÜLLER, 1776, by the following features; Basic color more greyish in hue, the overall picture confused: the alternation of the parts covered with darker and lighter scales is conspicuous; the pattern elements are more distinct, the transverse stripes sharper in outline, with the median, shadowy stripe being especially characteristic. The male valvae also show distinctly differing and constant points. Ecology. First stages and foodplant unknown. Apparently univoltine, on the wing in the middle of summer (June —July). Distribution. Hitherto known only from Mongolia. — Locus t y p i c u s : 5 km W from Somon Daschincilen, 1140 m.
