Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 89. (Budapest 1997)

Ronkay, L.: A new Brachygalea Hampson, 1906 species from Iran (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

cilia is conspicuously striolate like in most Calophasia STEPHENS, 1829, Omphalophana HAMPSON, 1906, etc. species, and the hindwing is much darker, almost completely dark brown. The two, formerly known Brachygalea species are rather dissimilar, B. albolineata is narrow-winged, almost patternless, the noctuid maculation is represented by a whitish spot at lower extremity of the reniform and a fine dark outline of the claviform, the crosslines are missing, except the interrupted, whitish subterminal. The most conspicuous markings of B. albolineata, the two sharp whitish streaks of the submedian fold and the subcellular, are absent in B. miskoi. The second member of the genus, B. kalchbergi, is quite dissimilar externally, resembling the taxa of the genera Metopoceras GUENÉE, 1850, and Recoropha NYE, 1975. The male genital capsulae of the three taxa of the genus are surprisingly similar, the vesicae show relatively larger differences. The male genitalia of the new species (Figs 23) differ from those of B. albolineata (see RONKAY & RONKAY 1995, Figs 1-2) by their significantly shorter, basally broader valva, shorter, narrower cucullus and pollex, broader, more serrated clavus, shorter apical process of the fultura inferior and several details of the aedeagus and the vesica (shorter aedeagus with shorter, less sclerotized carina, absence of the long basal diverticulum, shorter distal tube of vesica armed with longer, more spiniform cornuti, stronger, more acute terminal cornutus, resp.). The configuration of the male genitalia of B. miskoi and B. kalchbergi (see VARGA & RONKAY 1991, Figs 55-56) is more similar, but the valva of the new species is even shorter, basally broader, the cucullus is broader with shorter apex and pollex. The clavus is broader, more serrated but the large, triangular basal process is shorter. The carina of B. miskoi is shorter, less extending to the basal part of the vesica, the medial part of vesica is armed with a considerably larger amount of longer, spiniform cornuti, the terminal cornutus is larger, more acute, situated much closer to the medial cornuti field. Fig. 1. Brachygalea miskoi sp. n., holotype, Iran