S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 60. (Budapest, 1999)

Description — Male genitalia (Fig. 7): Right lateral processus (ceras) of sternite 8 well-developed, however, missing in one of the three dissected males. Sacculus tapering. Cornutus terminally slightly curved. Sternite 8 in P. benigna broader. Female genitalia (Fig. 8): Chitinisation of lamella antevaginalis ("vaginal plate") circular. Caudal chitinisation of corpus bursae covering upper half of corpus bursae (in P. benigna less than 1/2). In addition there is a chitinous arrow-head shaped ribbon (signum) in the oral part of corpus bursae, this plate is lacking in all other taxa of the genus. Remarks — A female paratype of Scopula amseli Wiltshire, 1967 (genitalia: pl. VII, figs 11, 11a) has been examined. This taxon has to be transferred to the genus Pseudocinglis. Habitus strikingly similar to Pseudocinglis benigna benigna from Baluchistan. Shape of wings a little bit more rounded, patterns on the underside of wings slightly more contrasted. Subject to further investigations on the base of more extensive material better to be downgraded to subspecies rank: Pseudocinglis benigna amseli (Wiltshire, 1967), comb, n., stat. n. Pseudocinglis falcovitshi Viidalepp, 1992, comb. n. ("falkovitzii" and "falkovitshi' = incorrect subsequent spellings in Viidalepp et al. 1992) belongs to the genus Pseudocinglis. Its justification as a separate species with regard to Pseudocinglis eurata needs confirmation. Scopula ansulata (Lederer, 1871) Material examined — Chuli, Firyuza, Ipay-Kala (14 males and females; 400-800 m; E4-E5, E6) The locus typicus of Scopula ansulata is Astrabad, NE Iran, only about 200 km from the above-mentioned Turkmenian localities. Scopula eberti Wiltshire, 1967 has been described from Sarobi, Eastern Afghanistan. To date both taxa have been considered as separate species. The diagnosis in Viidalepp et al. (1992: 101) was based mainly on structural differences of the male sternite 8. According to Viidalepp et al. (1. c.) both "species" occur sympatrically in Turkmenistan. The specimens from Turkmenistan show remarkable diversity in wing pattern and colour: Sometimes wing colour is brown instead of grey, sometimes the cell spot of the forewing is broadly encircled. In male genitalia both "types" mentioned by Viidalepp et al. (1. c.) have been found: in three out of five dissected males right lateral processus ("ceras") of sternite 8 slightly curved inwards in distal part, length about 1.2 mm. In both other males strongly curved inwards (at an angle of about 90°) over the margin of the caudal chitinous lobe of sternite 8 ("mappa"), length about 0.8 mm only. There is however no correlation between this feature and any other differential feature in habitus, in external or genital morphology. In case of the species of the closely related genera Scopula and Glossotrophia there are nearly 20 taxa known with polymorphisms within the populations in the structure of sternite 8 (Hausmann 1997b). Therefore, the structural differences in sternite 8 are not indicating a different taxon, but rather a polymorphism within the population. In the Turkmenian populations the right ceras always broad and strongly spinulous. A series of dissected specimens from Central and Eastern Afghanistan with sternite 8 has long straight right cerata without exceptions. Furthermore, these cerata are more slender and distally less spinulous than in the typical Scopula ansulata. In external morphology there are no constant differences. The above mentioned characteristics concerning the right ceras of sternite 8 are sufficient to define taxonomic diversity. Since the