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Benedek, B. ; Ronkay, L.: On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 93 Budapest, 2001 pp. 199-206. On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia B. BENEDEK & L. RONKAY Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary e-mail: ronkay@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu BENEDEK, B. & RONKAY, L. (2001): On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia. - Annales historico-naturalcs Musei nationalis hungarici 93: 199-206. Abstract - Two new Agrochola species, A. (s. I.) emilia sp. n. (North Vietnam) and A. (Anchoscelis) elami sp. n. (Iran) are described. With 9 figures. Key words - Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Agrochola, Vietnam, Iran, new species. INTRODUCTION The first revised checklist of the genus Agrochola HÜBNER, based on the studies of the genitalia of the species, was published by BOURSIN (1956), summarizing the results of his taxonomic studies on the western Palaearctic (Mediterranean and West Asian) Agrochola species. The research of the group has been intensified, after a longer pause, at the very end of the 1970s (BERIO 1976, RONKAY & MÉSZÁROS 1982, RONKAY 1984), as a result of the processing of the new expedition material from the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. An even larger increase has been started in the last twenty years: numerous new species have been discovered and described during this period, mostly in Central Asia and in the Himalayan-Sino-Pacific region (see DERRA 1990, Fl BIGER 1997, HACKER & MOBERG 1989, HACKER & RONKAY 1990, 1993, HREBLAY & RONKAY 1999, HREBLAY etal. 1999, RONKAY & GYULAI 1997, RONKAY etal 1998, SUGI 1982, VARGA & RONKAY 1991). The most recent checklist of the genus is given by RONKAY et al. (2001, in press). The present paper contains the descriptions of further two new species, from the north-eastern (Himalayan) part of Vietnam and from SW Iran, respectively. The Vietnamese species was discovered by an expedition of the Hungarian Natural