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Issue: Vol. 4291 No. 1: 11 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.8
Page range: 144–154
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 3

Notes on the Agrotis colossa Boursin problem, with the description of new Agrotis species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

H-3530 Miskolc, Mélyvölgy 13/A, Hungary.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, LT-08412 Vilnius 21, Lithuania.
Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Lepidoptera Noctuidae Agrotis Agrotis colossa as sp. n. Agrotis rachingeri sp. n. new species China

Abstract

The description of Agrotis colossa as sp. n. became necessary, since the original description has never been published and the manuscript was not found in the Boursin heritage. The original name and designation was accepted, however, the type material (holotype male and single allotype female) was completed with a series of males and females from the recent expeditions. The description of Agrotis rachingeri sp. n. is also given and the DNA results in case of both species. New taxa are illustrated with imagines in colour and male and female genitalia.

 

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