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Ronkay, L., Nekrasov, A. V. ; Szabóky, Cs.: On the taxonomy of the genus Dasypolia Guenée, 1852. Revision of the subgenus Cteipolia Staudinger, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

ANNALES HISTORTCO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 87. Budapest, 1995 p. 75-92 On the taxonomy of the genus Dasypolia Guenée, 1852. Revision of the subgenus Cteïpolia Staudinger, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) by L. RONKAY, Budapest, A. V. NEKRASOV, Moscow & Cs. SZABÓKY, Budapest RONKAY, L., NEKRASOV, A. V. & SZABÓKY, CS. (1995): On the taxonomy of the genus Dasypolia Guenée, 1852. Revision of the subgenus Cteïpolia Staudinger, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 87: 75-92. Abstract - The taxa of the subgenus Cteïpolia STAUDINGER are revised, C. sacelli SiAUDlNGER and C. isotima PÜNGELER are redescribed and four new species, C. tenia sp. n. (Pamir), C. gansoni sp. n. (Pamir), C. mimetica sp. n. (Tien Shan) and C. vera sp. n. (Karasu-Aras Mts, NE Turkey) are described. With 42 figures. INTRODUCTION The phylogenetic relationships of the Dasypolia GUENÉE complex and the characterization of the subgenera are given by RONKAY & ZlLLl (1993). It is mentioned there that the "... species D. (Cteïpolia) "sacelli" is also a complex of externally similar, partly sympatric species... The revision of this complex is under preparation." The present paper deals with the taxonomy and distribution of this complex, in a wider sense the species of the subgenus Cteïpolia STAUDINGER, 1896. Cteïpolia was erected as a monotypic genus by STAUDINGER (1896), based on the newly described species, sacelli STAUDINGER, 1896. This taxon was discovered in the Issyk-Kul area by TANCRÉ, the syntypes are five female specimens. It is an interesting fact that ALPHÉRAKY and STAUDINGER, two of the most prominent lepidopterists of that era, have a somewhat different opinion about the taxonomic place of the species. ALPHÉRAKY, who had also seen the specimens, mentioned that "Aussi Dasypolia pour moi. Morphologiquement voisine de ma Dasyp. gerbillus, mais distincte. Je ne vois pas la possibilité de la séparer du genre Dasypolia"

. In the opinion of STAUDINGER, the differences between the structure of the palpi and the elements of the wing pattern of sacelli and the other (known) species of Dasypolia appear to be significant and provide a basis for their separation on generic level. The additional species of the genus had already been described in this century (acrophila by HAMPSON (1906) from the Himalaya region; isotima by PÜNGELER (1914) from the Tien Shan Mts, Djarkent; lithophila by KAPUR (1960) from Nepal). KAPUR was the first author who published and figured the genitalia of two species of this genus, although the male genitalia of "C. acrophila" were given erroneously (displaying the male genitalia of a Pseudaletia, namely P. separata WALKER, 1865). The taxa acrophila and lithophila were transferred into the newly erected subgenus Sinipolia, together with the newly described species, honeyi and vignai, by RONKAY & ZILLI (1993). In the paper dealing also with the genital morphology of Cteïpolia (RONKAY, VARGA & BEHOUNEK 1991) the illustrations of the genitalia of C. sacelli (both sexes) and C. "isotima" (female) can be found. This latter species was misidentified, as the specimen under discussion belongs in fact to an undescribed species, being relatively remote from the other taxa of the subgenus Cteïpolia s.str. (D. (C.) tertia sp. n.).