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Issue: Vol. 4347 No. 3: 14 Nov. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.13
Page range: 598–600
Abstract views: 112
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of the female of Catocala becheri (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)

Altai State University, South Siberian Botanical Garden, Lenina str., 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia; Tomsk State University, Institute of Biology, Ecology, Soil Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia.
Lepidoptera Biodiversity, LLC, Mequon, USA.
National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Leninskiy pr. 4, Moscow 119049, Russia.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str., 2, LT-08412, Vilnius-21, Lithuania.
Lepidoptera Erebidae

Abstract

Catocala becheri Borth, Kons & Saldaitis, 2017 was recently described from Central Vietnam. It is a member of a morphologically well-defined group including Catocala intacta Leech, 1889 and Catocala hoferi Ishizuka & Ohshima, 2003 which both differ from C. becheri in wing pattern and male genitalia. (Borth et al. 2017). Recent collecting has provided additional specimens, including the first female C. becheri, described below.

 

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    Ishizuka, K. & Ohshima, S. (2003) Records of three species, including a new species, of Catocala Schrank, 1802 from Jiangxi-Fujian border, China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Gekkan-Mushi, 392, 40–43.

    Leech, J.H. (1889) On the Lepidoptera of Japan and Corea. – Part III. Heterocera, Sect. II. Noctues and Deltoides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 57 (4), 548–549.
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