Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Benedek, B. ; Ronkay, L.: On the taxonomy of the genus Agrochola Hübner, 1821 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part III. Two new species from Asia

History Museum (HNHM) to the Fan-si-pan Mts, within the framework of the Frontier-Vietnam organization and the HNHM. The new Iranian species was collected in the last trip of the expedition series organized partly by the HNHM and participated by the first author. SYSTEMATIC PART Agrochola (s. 1.) emilia sp. n. (Figs 1, 7) Holotype - male. "'VIETNAM, Prov. Lao Cai, 2100 m, Fan-si-pan Mts, 6 km W Sa Pa, 103°48,5'E, 22°17,9'N, 17.XI.I999, leg. A. Kun & L. Ronkay", slide No. RL6959 (coll. HNHM, Budapest). Diagnosis - The new species belongs to the Agrochola (s. 1.) semirena species-group (see HREBLAY etal. 1999: 39-48, Figs 52-54, 141, 142, HREBLAY & RONKAY 1999: 524-530, Figs 101-104, 1 18-120, Pl. XVIII, Figs 86-90). Its closest relatives are A. semirena (DRAUDT, 1950) and A. plumbitincta HREBLAY, PEREGOVITS et RONKAY, 1999. It differs externally from A. semirena by its larger size with broader, apically more acute forewing, generally darker ground colour, more sinuous crosslines, and the more concolorous dark grey-brown hindwing, from A. plumbitincta by its "regular" shape of the reniform stigma, the upper and lower halves being equally wide and the medial part is slightly constricted, and the black patch at lower third is significantly larger (the reniform stigma of A. plumbitincta is reversed drop-shaped, strongly tapering downwards, its black patch is much smaller). The male genitalia of A. emilia (Fig. 7) differ from those of all known relatives by their extremely long, straight, acute clavus, the very long, slender, falcate saccular extension, the longer, slenderer, more curved harpe and the complete lack of the subapical ventral extension of the costal plate. Description- Wingspan 38 mm, length of forewing 18 mm. Male. Pubescence of head and thorax dark violaceous brown, sides of palpi dark brown, antenna shortly ciliate. Abdomen short, paler grey-brown, lateral ridges ochrcous-reddish, dorsal crest weakly developed, consisting of dark brown tufts. Forewing long, rather broad, with apex pointed, outer margin finely crcnulatc. Ground colour shining, concolorous, dark brown-grey with strong violaceous shade and with weak red-brownish irroration around reniform stigma. Crosslines sinuous, finely double, blackish, defined with whitish-ochrcous, outer line rather indistinct. Antemcdial and postmedial lines with stronger costal patch, median fascia represented by a diffuse, pale, brownish shadow except in cell, forming strong, triangular blackish patch between stigmata. Orbicular stigma rounded, incompletely encircled with blackish brown and fine reddish lines, filled with ground colour. Reniform stigma large, broad, medially slightly constricted, encircled with whitish-ochrcous and a few blackish scales.