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Issue: Vol. 5249 No. 1: 28 Feb. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-02-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.1.1
Page range: 1-11
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Description of Sphaleroptera orientana meridionalis subs. n. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cnephasiini) from the Pale di San Martino Mountain plateau (Dolomites, NE Italy)

World Biodiversity Association Onlus, c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Lungadige, Porta Vittoria 9,37129 Verona, Italy.
Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133, Italy.
alpine environment alps biodiversity Dolomiti moth Lepidoptera

Abstract

On the base of newly collected material, a new subspecies of the alpine endemic moth Sphaleroptera orientana Whitebread, 2006 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from the Pale di San Martino Group (Dolomites, Northern Italy) is described. Morphological characters of the adults and DNA barcode suggests the presence of allopatric populations of S. orientana in the South-eastern Alps, attributable to two distinct subspecies: S. o. suborientana Whitebread, 2006 in the Catinaccio, the Sella, and the Fanes group, and Julian Alps, and S. o. meridionalis subs. nov. known from the Pale of San Martino group. The main biogeographic barrier is constituted by the complex of the Fiemme valleys—Val di Fassa—by the Pordoi Pass and by the Val Cordevole which from west to north to east separate the distribution area of S. o. suorientana from S.o. meridionalis.

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