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Issue: Vol. 3619 No. 4: 1 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.4.4
Page range: 460–466
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of the Callophrys mystaphia Miller, 1913—group from Iran (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini)

A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect, 33, Moscow 119071 Russia
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Lepidoptera systematics zoogeography Zagros Turkey

Abstract

A new species, recently misinterpreted as Callophrys mystaphia Miller, 1913, Callophrys mystaphioides Krupitsky & Kolesnichenko sp. n., is described from Central Iran (Esfahan Province). The new species differs from C. mystaphia in the combination of external characters and morphology of genitalia. Possible relations of C. mystaphia—species group with other Palaearctic Callophrys are discussed.

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