Karanasa naumanni sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype: ♂ with the following label “O-Afghanistan, Prv. Kunar-Nuristan, ob. Lindai Sin-Tal, vic. Barg-e Matal, Dándizenor mts., 3800 m, 14.07.1970, leg. Naumann, Coll Nr ZMK 94 ”.

Paratypes ♂, ♀: ♂ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Dar.-e-Pandjshir, Parian, 9.8.1972, leg. Pardes, Coll . Nr. 1539, C. Naumann ”; ♀ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Dar.-e- Pandjshir, Parian, 9.8.1972, leg. Pardes, Coll. Nr. 1539, C. Naumann ”.

The holotype and the paratypes are deposited in the collection of SMNK.

Description. Forewing length (from base to apex) 26 mm. Forewing: ground colour of upperside light brown; orange-yellow-brown band in postdiscal area developed; apical black ocellus pupilled white ca. 4.5 mm wide, second black ocellus of diameter 1.5 mm. Underside of forewings orange-yellow-brown similar to band on upperside; apical black ocellus similar to upperside but yellow ringed; second black ocellus about 1 mm wide on right wing and reduced in left. Hindwing: on upperside orange-yellow-brown band in postdiscal area reduced; underside of hindwings as shown in Fig. 3.

Diagnosis. New species differs from K. pamira titan and K. pamira biocellata in the reduced orange-yellowbrown bands on upperside of hindwings; from K. haslundi in the wide and monotonous orange-yellow-brown bands on upperside of forewings. Sympatric with both K. pamira and K. haslundi (Fig. 5).

Distribution. Extreme south-western part of Hindukush Mountains and Koh-i-Baba Mountains.

Etymology. The name naumanni is dedicated to the late Prof. Dr. Clas Naumann, a well-known lepidopterologist from the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn who first collected this new species in 1970.