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Ronkay, L., Nekrasov, A. V. ; Szabóky, Cs.: On the taxonomy of the genus Dasypolia Guenée, 1852. Revision of the subgenus Cteipolia Staudinger, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

female thin, filiform, covered with short scales and short, sparse cilia. Forewing rather broad, streak of submedian fold short, sharp, dark grey. Crosslines rather diffuse, sinuous, dark greyish, veins covered with grey at postmedial line. Orbicular and reniform stigmata well-defined, dark grey, often with lighter annuli, orbicular small, round, reniform long, comma- or moon-shaped. Subterminal sinuous, pale, defined mostly by darker inner and much lighter outer pails of marginal area. Terminal line a row of blackish spots, cilia ochreous, spotted with brown. Hindwing rather broad, almost unicolorous grey-brown, inner third of wing only slightly lighter, more ochreous. Crossline absent, discal spot visible but less sharp, rounded or lunulate; cilia ochreous. Underside greasy ochreous, suffused variably strongly with grey-brown, crossline absent or very pale, discal spots strong, long. - Male genitalia (Figs 33-36): uncus relatively long, narrow, slightly curved, tegumen rather high, less broad, penicular lobes narrow, long. Fultura inferior subrectangular, apical part incised, sometimes with stronger dorsal extension; vinculum short, broad, U-shaped. Valva long, medial part strongly tapering, cucullus long, curved, slightly dilated near apex. Sacculus short, low, clavus represented by some setae, pulvillus small, globular, densely setose. Harpe long, apically tapering, upturned dorsally. Aedeagus cylindrical, short, arcuate, sclerotized bars of carina long. Vesica tubular, recurved dorsally, basal third somewhat broadened. - Female genitalia (Figs 41-42): ovipositor very long, posterior papillae weak, gonapophyses very long, fine. Ostium bursae narrow, sclerotized, dorsal plate smaller, rounded, more or less drop-shaped, ventral plate subrectangular. Ductus bursae long, membranous, cervix bursae short, conical, finely wrinkled. Corpus bursae rather short, semiglobular, weak, with a single, small, more or less rounded signum. Diagnosis./). (C.) tertia represents a distinct line within the subgenus, characterized by some external and genitalic features as follows: imagines larger in size with forewings broader, uncus rather long, narrow, valvae more elongated, cuculli strongly upturned, vesica broadened at basal third, ovipositor very long, ostium bursae short, ductus bursae much longer, corpus bursae semiglobular, bearing only one signum. Distribution. The species is known from the vicinity of the Botanical Garden in Khorog, Tadjik Pamir Mts. Remarks. A specimen with some differences in the external morphology and the male genitalia (see Figs 14, 35) represents probably a species distinct from tertia. The external differences are rather large (smaller in size, coloration of both wings darker, stigmata larger, sharper) but those are slight in the genitalia (only the apical part of the fultura inferior is different). Further such material, including the female, would be necessary to decide whether this specimen is an extreme form of tertia or a sympatric sibling species. It should be noted that the series of tertia studied is rather homogeneous in the external features mentioned above, but, on the other hand, this would be the first and only case of sympatric speciation within the same line of the subgenus. * * * Acknowledgements - The authors express their sincere thanks to Dr. W. MEY (Berlin), Drs I. L. SUKHAREVA, V. I. KuzNETSOV and A. LVOVSKY (St. Petersburg), Dr. M. R. HONEY (London), Mr. G. BEHOUNEK (Deisenhofen), Mr. H. THÖNY (Ingolstadt), Dr. P. GYULAI (Miskolc), Dr. B. HERCZIG (Tata), Dr. K. SZEŐKE (Székesfehérvár), Mr. Gy. M. LÁSZLÓ (Gödöllő), Mr. M. HREBLAY (Érd), Mr. Gy. FÁBIÁN and Mr. G. RONKAY (Budapest). The research was supported by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA No. 3181). REFERENCES HAMPSON, G. F (1906): Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 6. Cucullianae. - British Museum (Natural History), London, XIV+ 532 pp. KAPUR, A. P. (1962): On the genus Cteïpolia Staudinger (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), with the description of a new species from Nepal. - Records Indian Mus. 58 [I960]: 115-120a. PÜNGELER, R. (1914): Neue palaearktische Makrolepidopteren. - Dt. ent. Ztsch. Iris 28: 37-55. RONKAY, L. & VARGA, Z. (1990): Taxonomic and zoogeographical studies on the subfamily Cuculliinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Part II. - Esperiana 1: 471- 497. RONKAY, L., VARGA, Z. & BEHOUNEK, G. (1991): Two new Cuculliinae species from the Pamir Mountains (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). - Entomofauna 12 (8): 105-116.