Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 80. (Budapest 1988)

Vojnits, A.: New Eupithecia species from Soviet Central Asia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

Eupithecia myoma sp. n. Derivation of specific name: NL myoma. Diagnosis — Alar expanse of fore wings of 2 male specimens 18 and 18.5 mm, mean of females 18.5 mm, extreme values 17 and 21 mm. A small-sized species with elongated and pointed wings. Fore wing an isosceles triangle, costa arcuate especially at apex, termen evenly but slightly arched, dorsum straight. Apex pointed and elongated, termen obtusely angulate. Basic colour dark fuscous. Pattern innotatoid, and with dark, shady stripes backing the transverse stripes, causing a peculiarly zonate pattern. Discal spot black. Hind wing dark, transverse stripes situated densely, and a dark stripe decurrent as a continuation of postmedian stripe of fore wing. Underside of wings pale or medium grey, pattern elements grey. Cilia short, grey (Plate 2: figs 10-12). Genitalia — rf: Largely innotatoid, but uncus shorter and thicker, valva relatively smaller, ampulla shorter, sternite VIII narrower and basally angulately incised (Plate 5: figs 37-39). — 9 : Also innotatoid, but bursa copulatrix longer, spinose field more restricted, area free of spines heavily sclerotized, posterior apophyses very short and papillae anales flattened (Plate 5 : fig. 40). Biology — First stages and foodplant unknown. All collected imagos flew in May. Distribution — Ranging in Soviet Kirghizia. Locus typicus: Tshatkal. Specific differences — The innotatoid species is extraordinarily well characterizable

—besides the differences mentioned in the diagnosis of the genitalia

—by the small, dark, zonate wings. Holotype rf : "Kirgiz SSR 1986 Tshatkal mts. SE si. Arkit 22.-26. V. H. Remm leg." "Holotype Eupithecia myoma sp. n. gen. prep. No. 14944 rf det. A. Vojnits". — Holotype deposited in the Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, paratypes in the same Institute and in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Slides: Nos. 14944, 14945 (rfrf) — 14913, 14914, 14927, 14928, 14935, 14942 (9 9), gen. prep. A. Vojnits. Eupithecia abundeli sp. n. Diagnosis — Alar expanse of fore wings of 4 male specimens 21 and 22 mm, that of 8 females 20-22 mm, mean 21 mm. A moderately broad-winged species. Costa and termen of fire wing arcuate, dorsum straight. Apex pointed, tornus angulate. Hind wing rounded. Fore wing grey, and principally in median field rufous or brownish. Transverse stripes dark grey to black. Discal spot marked, elongate, black. Hind wing yellowish grey, transverse stripes grey: at inner margin black, discal spot small, rounded. Underside of fore wing grey, that of hind wing pale grey, pattern elements dark grey. Cilia striated greyish yellow and grey (Plate 2: figs 13-14). Genitalia —• rf : Of medium size. Uncus short, thick, stout. Valva evenly wide from base to its middle, subsequently finely attenuating. Dorsum hardly convex, ventrum obtusely angulate, Apex obtuse. Pulvinulus a wide, obtuse-angled triangle. Ampulla long and thick, terminally clavate with densely arranged short and robust bristles. Falces not reaching apex of uncus. Clavulus short, wide, scopulina sparse, robust. Lamellula wide and heavily sclerotized, especially basally. Aedoeagus cylindrical, slightly bent. Vesica with a somewhat arcuate bacilliform and a multiply twisted lamelli•form excrescence. Base of sternite VIII very wide, then attenuating, terminally widely excised, its arms narrow and long (Plate 6: figs 41-43). 9 '• Bursa copulatrix small, sphaerical, soft-walled, with an irregularly shaped small field of spines. Antrum very wide. Both anterior and posterior apophyses — as compared to bursa — long and robust. Papillae anales large, wide (Plate 6 : fig. 44). Biology — First stages and foodplant unknown. Imagos from July-August. Distribution — Ranging in Soviet Central Asia. Locus typicus: Pamir. Specific differences — The new species shows a certain relationship with partly the phoeniceata partly the sinuosaria species-groups, but differs from all of their species. I dedicate the new species to A. BUNDEL, collector of the extensive and valuable Pamir material. Holotype: 9^ "Pamir mis. Schach-Darensis, cliv. sept., fl. Badjond-Dara ; 3500 m 31/ VII/1961, Bundel" "Holotype Eupithecia bundeli sp. n., gen. prep. No. 17689 9 det. A. Vojnits". — Paratypes: Irfrf and 59 9 specimens from the Pamir area." Holotype deposited in the