Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)
Ronkay, L.: New Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 species from Taiwan and Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 93 Budapest, 2001 pp. 219-229. New Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 species from Taiwan and Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae) L. RONKAY Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary e-mail: ronkay@zoo.zoo.nh mus. hu RONKAY, L. (2001): New Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 species from Taiwan and Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae). - Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 93: 219-229. Abstract - Descriptions of four new Stenoloba species, S. pulla sp. n. (Taiwan), S. yenminia sp. n. (Taiwan), S. benedeki sp. n. (Vietnam) and S. lanceola sp. n. (Vietnam) are given. With 17 figures. Key words - Noctuidae, Stenoloba, new species, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam. INTRODUCTION The revision of the genus Stenoloba STAUDINGER, 1892 has recently been published by KONONENKO & RONKAY (2000, 2001). Results of this revisional work clearly demonstrate the surprisingly high number of species of this bryophiline genus in Taiwan and in northern Indochina. The continuation of these investigations, based on new expedition materials collected in Taiwan and in northern Vietnam and on the material of various museums and private collections in Taiwan, led to the discovery of four additional new species occurring in these two countries. Thus, the number of the known species of the genus is increased over fifty (51 ), and discovery of further new species in these regions is highly predictable. It is worth to mention that Taiwan appears as a prominent centre of speciation of the genus: this rather small area harbours, by our present knowledge, eleven Stenoloba species. Eight of them are endemic to Taiwan, while further two widespread species are represented here by endemic subspecies (S. assimilis taiwana KONONENKO et RONKAY, 2000 and S. manleyi formosana KONONENKO et RONKAY, 2000), and only a single species, S. rufosagitta KONONENKO et RONKAY, 2001, is known from both this island and the Asian mainland (northern Vietnam).
