O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 69. (Budapest, 2008)

more or less trapezoidal, membranous. Ductus bursae medium long, narrowly tubular, with fine longitudinal wrinkles, finely twisted proximally. Appendix bursae narrow, rather finger-like, corpus bursae sacculiform, membranous, without signa. Habitat and vegetation - The new species is a strange member of the genus, being adapted to the more continental climate of the Hissar range. The unique specimen was collected at a strongly continental, Central Asian high mountain pass above 3000 m. Etymology - The new species is dedicated to Mr. FRANZ HOFER, the renowned Austrian lepidopterist, collector of the Palaearctic Noctuids. Amphipyra micra sp. n. (Figs 2,9-11) Type material - Holotype: Male, Iran, Prov. Esfahan, Zagros Mts, Fereidun Shar, 2700-3000 m, N32°55,262', E50°06,643'; 10-12. VII. 2006, leg. T. HÁCZ; slide No. 2063 GYULAI, coll. P. GYULAI (deposited in the HNHM). Paratypes: 5 males, with the same data; 1 male, Prov. Mazandaran, Elburz Mts, 10 km W of Balade, 36°13'N, 51°36'E, 2400 m, July 2006; 1 female, Iran, Prov. Fars, Zagros Mts, Kiih-e Barm Firus, between Yazd and Ardakan, 2500-3000 m, 4-6. VII. 2000, leg. B. BENEDEK; coll. P. GYULAI. Slide Nos 2044 GYULAI (male), 1495 GYULAI (female). Diagnosis - This is the smallest species of the genus. As for the external features, the new species resembles only the smaller, pale forms of the recently named A. tetra pallida STAUDINGER, 1901 but is significantly smaller (about half as large as A. tetra pallida), having slenderer and unusually slim body, paler, more silky fore wings with well-visible ochreous stripe at base of the cilia (as in A. stix HERRICH-SCHÄFFER, 1850). In the male copulatory organ, the valva of the new species is more elongated than in A. tetra pallida, the distal third of aedeagus densely covered with fine spicules, and the vesica is narrower, more cylindrical. Comparing the female genitalia, the new taxon differs considerably from A. tetra pallida by its sinuous, not equally long and thick apophyses anteriores and posteriores, less spacious and relatively long ductus bursae, bulbous and not globular appendix bursae; in addition, the shape of corpus bursae is also somewhat different in the two related taxa. Description - Wingspan 20.0-26.0 mm, length of fore wing 11.2-12.5 mm. Male (Fig. 2). Pubescence of head, palpi and thorax brownish-fawn coloured with silky shining; frons, ventral side of palpi and abdomen somewhat lighter. Eyes large, globular; antennae brown, more or less filiform, densely ciliate. Fore wing pale, unicolorous greyish-brown