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Herczig, B., Ronkay, L. , Bathiev, A. M. , Gizatulin, I. I. , Korolj, T.S. , Tochiev, T. Y. ; Uzahov, D. I.: Contributions to the knowledge of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) fauna of the NE Caucasus II

Cafyptra thalictri (BORKHAUSEN, 1790) B. Rivula sericealis (SCOPOLI, 1763) B. Hypena rostralis (LINNAEUS, 1758) B. Hypena obesalis TREITSCHKE, 1829 F. Schrankia costaestrigalis (STEPHENS, 1834) B. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEW TAXA Cryphia (Bryophila) uzahovi RONKAY et HERCZIG sp. n. (Figs 19-20) Holotype: male, USSR, Checheno-Ingousetia, NE Caucasus, vie. Lake Kezenoy-am, 2200 m, 1114.09.1990, leg. HERCZIG et RONKAY, slide No. 3700 Ronkay. Deposited in coll. HNHM Budapest. - Paratypes: one female from the same locality and data; 6 males, USSR, Checheno-Ingousetia, NE Caucasus, Furtoug, 1100 m, 17-21.09.1990, leg. HERCZIG et RONKAY, coll. HERCZIG et HNHM Budapest. Slides Nos 3734, 3780 (males), 3779 (female). Description: wingspan 23-30 mm, length of fore wing 12-15 mm. Head and thorax light olive-grey, frons lighter, large and rounded; antennae of males finely ciliate. Abdomen grey, tufts of dorsal crest small. Forewing relatively wide, apex slightly pointed. Scaling of fore wings finely reticulate, ground colour light ochreous-grey, irrorated with olive-grey and greenish-grey, especially in medial and terminal fields. Wing pattern diffuse or obsolescent, transverse lines grey, diffuse and sinuous. Orbicular and reniform stigmata dark, without sharp outlines; claviform absent. Subterminal line deleted or a pale, interrupted ochreous line. Terminal line fine, dark grey, cilia ochreous-white, inner half spotted with brown-grey. Hindwings whitish, intensively and more or less uniformly irrorated with grey, marginal area a bit darker. Cellular lunule a dark shadow; terminal line grey, cilia ochreous. Underside of wings shiny ochreous-white, irrorated with grey. Cellular lunules present on both wings, large but diffuse. Male genitalia (Figs 1-5): uncus short, terminated in a small hook. Tegumen weak, fultura inferior subdeltoidal, vinculum wide and short. Valvae elongate, apically tapering, ventral margin with a more or less expressed triangular lobe at distal half. Apex pointed, slightly concave. Sacculus narrow, clavus reduced. Harpe long and slender, finely curved; apex rounded. Aedeagus short and small, carina weakly sclerotized. Vesica short, its proximal part globular, covered densely with short spiculi, distal part short, tubular. Female genitalia (Fig. 6): ovipositor short and wide, sclerotized, gonapophyses short but strong. Ostium bursae membranous, ductus bursae short and narrow, finely rugulose. Anterior part of ductus and apical edge of bursa copulatrix with elongated fields of small spicules. Cervix bursae less developed, corpus bursae very long and narrow, membranous with slightly granulöse apical part. The new species belongs to the subgenus Bryophila displaying some transitional features in its external and genital morphology between the maeonis and the salomonis groups; differing from all the related taxa by the configuration of the vesica: the lack of the single, large cornutus but with a great amount of small spinules covering the entire surface of the globular part of the vesica. A more or less similar structure can be found only of some Victrix (s.str.) species but the field of spinules is restricted to the basal, tubular part of the vesica and the big cornutus is present. (The male genitalia of the related species are illustrated in BOURSIN 1954 and HACKER 1989). The shape of the valva and the harpe of the new species resembles to the members of the salomonis group but the ventral lobe of the former is smaller. The specimens originating from Furtoug have a bit more intensive ochreous-yellowish ground colour in the basal and marginal fields and sharper dark pattern. The habitats of the species in both localities are hot and dry rocky slopes in or near to steep rocky gorges, they came to the light in the second half of the night. The new species is dedicated to Dr. DZHABRAIL I. UZAHOV, head of the Zoological Department of the Grozniy State University.