<strong>The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park </strong>

ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV; IGOR G. PLJUSTCH; YURIY SKRYLNIK; OLEG PAK; THOMAS J. WITT

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.3

Issue: Vol. 3990 No. 1: 23 Jul. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-07-23

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.3

Page range: 41–72

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The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park

ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV⁺⁻
IGOR G. PLJUSTCH⁺⁻
YURIY SKRYLNIK⁺⁻
OLEG PAK⁺⁻
THOMAS J. WITT⁺⁻

Altai State University (South Siberian Botanical Garden), Lenina pr. 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia.

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, B. Khmelnitskogo 15, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine.

Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry & Forest Melioration, Pushkinska str. 86, Kharkov, 61024, Ukraine.

Donetsk National University, Faculty of Biology, Shchors str. 46, Donetsk, 83050, Ukraine.

Witt Museum, Tengstrasse 33, D-80796, Munich, Germany.

Cossidae new species Afghanistan fauna

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Abstract

The annotated list of Cossidae of Afghanistan consists of 44 species in 17 genera from the four subfamilies Catoptinae, Cossinae, Zeuzerinae, and Mehariinae. Three new species are described: Cossulus habibae Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Semagystia bamiani Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Phragmacossia bandeamiri Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov.; all from Band-e-Amir National Park in Bamian Province. Three species (Dervishiya cadambae (Moore, 1865), Semagystia cossoides (Graeser, 1892), Phragmacossia territa (Staudinger, 1879)) are reported for the first time from Afghanistan. A brief biogeographical analysis of the Cossidae of Afghanistan is given.