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03BB87F6FFE3FFA4FF281E7683E3F974.text	03BB87F6FFE3FFA4FF281E7683E3F974.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cerastis aspira Gyulai, Ronkay & Saldaitis 2011	<div><p>Cerastis aspira Gyulai, Ronkay &amp; Saldaitis, sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs. 1, 2, 9–11)</p> <p>Type material. Holotype: Male, China, W. Sichuan, Kangding, near <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.8376&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.283699" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.8376/lat 30.283699)">Zheduo Pass</a>, 30°17.022'N, 101°50.256'E, 13. iv. 2010, 3230 m, leg. A. Saldaitis, coll. P. Gyulai, slide No. GYP 2431m. Paratypes: 13 males, 5 females, with the same data. The paratypes are deposited in the collections of AFM, ASV, DNK, GBG / ZSM, GRB, HHP, NRCV and GYP. Slide Nos. GYP 2403m, GYP2480 f.</p> <p>Diagnosis and description. Forewing lengths of 16–17 mm and 15mm for the male and female, respectively. The forewing differs from all other Palearctic congeners being the noctuid maculation lighter reddish-brown, than the ground color and forewing pattern differs by the lower parts of the orbicular and reniform stigmata confluent on the main vein forming a characteristic broad V. The forewing is more similar to four North American specie s (C. cornuta Grote, 1874, C. robertsoni Lafontaine &amp; Crabo, 1997, C. enigmatica Lafontaine &amp; Crabo, 1997, and C. gloriosa Lafontaine &amp; Crabo, 1997) but can be distinguished by the shape of the crosslines. Compared to the Neartic taxa (Lafontaine, 1998) the male of the new taxon has narrower valvae terminally, a simple non-twisted vesica without subbasal cornutus, and a twin terminal cornutus. In the female genitalia the appendix bursae of C. aspira is simple (not coiled) and is considerably smaller than in the four Nearctic species; the shape and sclerotization of ostium bursae is different and the otherwise longer ductus bursae has different sclerotized parts. These genitalic differences also apply to the Palaearctic species, however similarities with C. leucographa ([Denis &amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) including tubular, helicoidally twisted vesica and the lack of a subbasal cornutus indicate a possible grouping with that species. Recent faunistic lists still include C. leucographa in the genus Cerastis Ochsenheimer, 1816 but suggestions to put it into a distinct genus began with Heinemann (1859), who established the genus Sora for Noctua leucographa, suggested it was distinct. Subsequently, Tams (1939) stated the homonymy of Sora and gave the replacement name Gypsitea (see Nye, 1975), and both Beck (1992) and Fibiger (1997) considered the possibility of a new taxon. There are clear male genitalic differences between the two allied species: the vesica of the new taxon is not twisted and bears two much shorter and wider basally coincident terminal cornuti, the terminal part of the valva is elongated, the basal part of the harpe is broader, distally thorn-like and dorsally curved, the juxta is differently shaped, and the medial incision is broadly U-formed.</p> <p>Distribution and biology. Only known from the Kangding area of China's Sichuan province on the east edge of the Tibetan plateau. All specimens were collected in mid April at an altitude of 3200 m; both males and females are strongly attracted to light even during periods of snowfall but appear to have a local distribution, as Cerastis aspira was discovered only in the Kangding Valley near Zheduo Pass.</p> <p>The new species was uncommon in the shrubby transition between the mountain primary mixed forests and alpine grassland zones. It flies with other early spring moths such as Hyalobole nigripalpis (Warren, 1911) or overwintering Dasypolia (Dasypolia) bicolor Hreblay &amp; Ronkay, 1995.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87F6FFE3FFA4FF281E7683E3F974	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gyulai, P.;Ronkay, L.;Saldaitis, A.	Gyulai, P., Ronkay, L., Saldaitis, A. (2011): New Noctuidae species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa 2896 (1): 46-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2896.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2896.1.5
03BB87F6FFE2FFA7FF281D058282FD18.text	03BB87F6FFE2FFA7FF281D058282FD18.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Palaeamathes serrulata Gyulai, Ronkay & Saldaitis 2011	<div><p>Palaeamathes serrulata Gyulai, Ronkay &amp; Saldaitis, sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs 3, 4, 12–14)</p> <p>Type material. Holotype: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.21&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.5" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.21/lat 29.5)">Male</a>, China, W-Sichuan, Litang env., 4000 m, 29.50°N, 100.21°E, 16. vii. 2009, leg. I. &amp; A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis; coll. P. Gyulai (Miskolc). Slide No. GYP 2435m</p> <p>Paratypes: 2 males, 2 females, with the same data; slide Nos GYP 2398m, GYP2482 f. The paratypes are deposited in the collections of ASF, GYP, GBG / ZSM and NRCV.</p> <p>Diagnosis and description. Forewing length 16.5–18.0 mm. External morphological features and genitalia place the new species closest to Palaeamathes harpegnoma (Hreblay &amp; Ronkay, 1998). Despite similarities in forewing ground colour (brown, brown-red) with the single worn P. harpegnoma specimen, P. serrulata can be distinguished by having more elongated forewings, an antemedial crossline that is not oblique and a narrower reniform stigmata that has a conspicuously different shape forming a lying V-form pointing toward the basal part of forewing. In the male genitalia of the new species the cucullus is slighter longer, the apical process of the bifurcated harpe is longer, and the medial incision of the juxta is smaller. The vesica has two tiny wide-based cornuti situated in close proximity subbasally, while in P. harpegnoma the smaller cornutus is distally positioned. Distinguishing female genitalia characters, in comparison with the other known Palaeagrotis, are as follows: ostium bursae is wide calycular, with a small posterio-medial incision on the outer belt-like sclerotised lamella; the wall of ductus bursae has a visible characteristic, longitudinal tongue-like sclerotised lamella; the appendix bursae is basally broad and the corpus bursae is sac-like.</p> <p>Distribution and biology. Only known from the Litang area of China's Sichuan province on the east part of the Tibetan plateau. All specimens were collected in mid July at an altitude 4000 m. Both males and females are attracted to light but appear to have a local distribution as P. serrulata was discovered in one small valley near Litang. The new species was uncommon in the alpine grasslands zone where it flies with other rare high altitude moths such as the arctiids Platarctia souliei (Oberthür, 1911) and Murzinowatsonia x-album (Oberthür, 1911).</p> <p>Etymology. The name refers to the serrated distal part of the harpe.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87F6FFE2FFA7FF281D058282FD18	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gyulai, P.;Ronkay, L.;Saldaitis, A.	Gyulai, P., Ronkay, L., Saldaitis, A. (2011): New Noctuidae species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa 2896 (1): 46-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2896.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2896.1.5
03BB87F6FFE0FFA3FF281A9B800DFB0B.text	03BB87F6FFE0FFA3FF281A9B800DFB0B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hada antonraui Gyulai, Ronkay & Saldaitis 2011	<div><p>Hada antonraui Gyulai, Ronkay &amp; Saldaitis, sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs 5, 6, 15–17)</p> <p>Type material. Holotype: Male, China, W. Sichuan, Kangding, near <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.8376&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.283699" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.8376/lat 30.283699)">Zheduo Pass</a>, 30°17.022'N, 101°50.256'E, 13. iv. 2010, 3230 m, leg. A. Saldaitis (coll. P. Gyulai). Slide No. GYP 2430m. Paratypes: 21 males, 14 females, with the same data, 34 males, 18 females, China, W. Sichuan, road Menghugang / <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.38333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.45" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.38333/lat 31.45)">Kangding</a>, 29°49.955'N, 102°02.827'E, 12. iv. 2010, 3000 m, leg. Aidas Saldaitis; female, Sichuan, Shimian, 1300 m, 31°27 N, 103°23 E, 12–24. iv. 2007, leg. V. Siniaev.. The paratypes are deposited in the collections of AFM, ASV, DNK, GBG / ZSM, GRB, HHP, NRCV, GYP and WSM. Slide Nos GYP2408, 2475 m, GYP2479, 2484 f.</p> <p>Diagnosis and description. Forewing length 15–17 mm. Its external morphology is closest to H. chlorata Kononenko, 1998 and the smaller, lighter coloured H. lurida Alphéraky, 1892 but it may also be allied to H. honeyi Plante, 1982, and H. bryoptera Püngeler, 1900. H. antonraui is easily distinguishable by its broader, and slightly greyish forewings without the reddish-brown or olive-green colouring of the other species. It also has differently shaped crosslines (especially the subterminal), more conspicuous lightly ringed maculations with a more rectangular atypical reniform stigma, and lighter outer margins.</p> <p>The male copulatory organs of the main species groups of Hada Billberg, 1820 are strikingly diverse but the somewhat similar Himalayan-Sino-Tibetan species groups are believed to belong to four lineages. The H. lurida-H. tenebra Hampson, 1905 species group is characterized by a rounded, small cucullus, with straight, stick-like digitus and a lack of saccular extensions. The H. honeyi – H. bryoptera species group has a double strong saccular extension pair. The vesica of the H antonraui group is most similar to the H. montana (Leech, 1900) – H. chlorata lineage which is characterized by a larger cucullus, bearing small and acute ventro-lateral extensions, with short sacculi and without a strongly sclerotized process (or with only a triangular, membraneous postsaccular lobe). H. antonraui can be separated from all congeners by genitalia, with the male having a broad, angular cucullus bearing variable long processi, and the female ductus bursae having a large hatchet-like distal process.</p> <p>Distribution and biology. Only known from the area of China's Sichuan province on the east edge of the Tibetan plateau. All specimens were collected in mid April at altitudes ranging from 1300 to 3200 m. Both males and females are strongly attracted to lights even during periods of snowfall but appear to have a local distribution as H. antonraui was discovered in only two valleys near Kangding. The new species was one of the most frequent noctuids encountered in mountain virgin mixed forest habitat dominated by broad-leaved trees, rhododendron and bamboo. It flies with other early spring moths species such as Hyalobole nigripalpis (Warren, 1911) or overwintering Dasypolia (Dasypolia) bicolor Hreblay &amp; Ronkay, 1995 and Lithophane (Litholomia) compromissa Ronkay, Ronkay, Gyulai &amp; Hacker, 2010.</p> <p>Etymology. Dedicated to Anton E. Rau (Grafing, Germany) for his contributions to entomology.</p> <p>Lacanobia (Dianobia) kitokia Gyulai, Ronkay &amp; Saldaitis, sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs 7, 8,18–20)</p> <p>Type material. Holotype: Male. China, Sichuan Province, 100 km W of Maniganggo city, 26. vi. 2004, leg. S. Nykl (coll. P. Gyulai). Slide No. GYP 1897m. Paratypes: China, Qinghai Province: 1 male, 70 km W of Yushu city, 3800 m, 23. vi. 2002, leg. M. Kopp. 1 male, 2 females, Qinghai N.E., Daban Shan Mts, N. from <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.77832&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=34.993767" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.77832/lat 34.993767)">Datong</a>, 3100 m, 34°59.626’N, 101°46.699’E; 07. vii. 2010, leg. A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis; 2 females, Qinghai N.E., Laji Shan Mts, S. from <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=102.26895&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.256733" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 102.26895/lat 36.256733)">Ledu</a>, 3040 m, 36°15.404’N, 102°16.137’E; 10. vii. 2010, leg. A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis. Sichuan Province: 9 males, 6 females, N. Sichuan, road from Songpan to <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.415985&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=32.925182" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.415985/lat 32.925182)">Zaige</a>, 3500 m, 32°55.511’N, 103°24.959’E; 05 vii. 2010, leg. A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis; 1 female, N. Sichuan, road from Songpan to <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.74085&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=33.212284" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.74085/lat 33.212284)">Jiuzhaigou</a>, 2600 m, 33°12.737’N, 103°44.451’E, 03.vii. 2010, leg. A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis; 4 males, 5 females, N. Sichuan, road from Songpan to <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.727066&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=33.146168" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.727066/lat 33.146168)">Jiuzhaigou</a>, 3000 m, 33°08.770’N, 103°43.624’E, 04. vii. 2010, leg. A. Floriani &amp; A. Saldaitis. Yunnan Province: 1 male, 1 female, Diqing Tibetan Autonome Prefecture 8 km NNE of Shangri La Nairi villages, 3300 m, 14. vi.2009, leg. B. Benedek. The paratypes are deposited in the collections of AFM, ASV, DNK, GBG / ZSM, GRB, HHP, NRCV, WSM and GYP. Slide Nos: GYP 2446m, GYP 2462m, BJ 1059m; GYP2464 f, BJ1060f, GBG / ZSM7436 f.</p> <p>Diagnosis and description. The new taxon shares similar forewing and female genital patterns with L. (D.) mongolica Behounek, 1993 and L. (D.) contrastata (Bryk, 1942), and similar male genitalia with L. (D.) kirghisa Gyulai &amp; Ronkay, 1998. With a forewing length of 18–21 mm the wings of the new taxon are slightly broader than those of the three closest congeners and the ground colour is rarely brown but instead more concolorous, ashy bluish-grey. The oblique large spot of the middle area, almost confluent with the same coloured orbicular, extending almost to the postmedial line also strictly differentiate L. (D.) kitokia from the more homogenous, dark brown or mostly black L. (D.) kirghisa (Gyulai &amp; Ronkay, 1998). The male genitalia differs from the most similar L. (D.) kirghisa by the narrower sacculus, the thin, evenly broad digitus, the basally broader, but distally tapering (almost triangular) apically acute harpe, and slightly longer spines on the terminal diverticulum of the vesica. The female genitalia of L. (D.) kitokia differ from these three relatives by having a globular (not ovoid or saccular) corpus bursae, a much broader and uniformly wide ductus bursae, and a thinner less funnel-shaped ostium bursae than L. (D.) kirghisa. The ostium bursae and the ductus bursae are similar to L. (D.) contrastata and L. (D.) mongolica but with the ductus being straight, evenly wide and the appendix bursae rather similar to those of L. (D.) mongolica, but distally weaker..</p> <p>Distribution and biology. Known from different localities of China's Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai provinces on the north-east edge of the Tibetan plateau. All specimens were collected during June or July at altitudes ranging from 2600 to 3800 m. Both males and females are attracted to light.</p> <p>The new species was uncommon in different kinds of biotopes, but was best collected in the shrubby dry transition between the mountain mixed forest and the alpine grassland zones.</p> <p>Etymology. “ kitokia ” is Lithuanian, meaning “distinguish, different from others.”</p> <p>We thank Gabor Ronkay for providing colour photographs, Adrienne Gyulai Garai for the genital photographs, Robert Borth for grammatical help, and Irene and Alessandro Floriani for their enthusiasm and patience during the China expeditions.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87F6FFE0FFA3FF281A9B800DFB0B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gyulai, P.;Ronkay, L.;Saldaitis, A.	Gyulai, P., Ronkay, L., Saldaitis, A. (2011): New Noctuidae species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa 2896 (1): 46-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2896.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2896.1.5
