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Issue: Vol. 1244 No. 1: 26 Jun. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1244.1.2
Page range: 33–39
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Amphipoea Billberg, 1820, from northwestern Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute, Tehran 19395, Iran
Molbechs Allé 49, 4180 Sorø, Denmark
Lepidoptera new species Iran Noctuidae Amphipoea

Abstract

Amphipoea maryamae, sp. n., is described from the low mountains of West Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran. The habitat is semi-steppe with herbaceous vegetation and scattered trees. Adults and male and female genitalia are described and illustrated and compared with presumably closely related Amphipoea species. The genus Amphipoea previously was unrecorded from Iran.

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