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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-06-03
Page range: 396–399
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A new species of Hyponephele Muschamp, 1915 from Tajikistan (Lepidoptera: Satyridae)

Russian Entomological Society, Nizhny Novgorod Branch, P.O. Box 97 Nizhny Novgorod, RF-603009 Russia.
new species Hyponephele Tajikistan Lepidoptera Satyridae

Abstract

Hyponephele Muschamp, 1915 is a Palaearctic genus comprising 39 species (Eckweiler, Bozano, 2011), with most distributed in the Central Asiatic region. During the course of faunistic studies on the butterflies of Tajikistan, a new member of this genus was found; it is described herein as new. It is closely related and sympatric to H. hilaris (Staudinger, 1886) so compared to this one.