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Issue: Vol. 4399 No. 2: 21 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.2.9
Page range: 261–271
Abstract views: 95
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Systematics of the Satyrium (Superflua) deria (Moore, 1865) species group with description of a new species from Afghanistan (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 1–12, Moscow 119991, Russia Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, B. Khmelnitsky Str., 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine
R. Luxemburg Str., 21-5, Donetsk, 83050, Ukraine
Lepidoptera Theclinae Eumaeini hairstreaks morphology genitalia taxonomy zoogeography Hindu Kush Palaearctic

Abstract

Satyrium (Superflua) deria (Moore, 1865) species group is revised. The group contains four species: S. (S.) deria (northern Himalayan region and southwestern Pamirs), S. (S.) muksuria Churkin & Pletnev, 2010 (southwestern Alay Mountains and Peter the Great Range), S. (S.) zabirovi Churkin & Pletnev, 2010 (from northwestern Pamirs to Darvaz Range), and S. (S.) hazarajatica sp. n. (type locality: central Afghanistan, Bamyan Province, Band-e Amir valley, env. Yakawlang). The new species differs from the other members of the group in the male and female genitalia, wing pattern, and colouration. Female genitalia of the S. (S.) deria, S. (S.) muksuria and S. (S.) zabirovi are illustrated and discussed for the first time. S. (S.) muksuria is newly recorded from the Alay Mountains. A key to species of the S. (S.) deria group is provided.

 

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