Stygia mosulensis Daniel, 1965

Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi, Haverinen, Risto, Junnilainen, Jari, Kalashian, Mark & Pototskin, Aleksander, 2025, First records of two genera Phragmacossia Schawerda, 1924 and Stygia Latreille, [1802] in the South Caucasus (Lepidoptera, Cossidae), Caucasiana 4, pp. 59-64 : 59-64

Stygia mosulensis Daniel, 1965

Fig. 2

Stygia mosulensis : Yakovlev and Ströhle 2016: 11, fig. 1 (♂)

Stygia mosulensis : Kemal and Koçak 2016: 2, fig. 1 (♀)

Stygia mosulensis : Alipanah et al. 2021: 11 , fig. 2 C (♂)

Material examined.

ARMENIA • 1 ♀; Alvank , Syunik Province; 38.918750°N, 46.339806°E; 484 m a. s. l.; leg: Risto Haverinen; 16 July 2022; JJHF .

Remarks.

The species is known to occur in Iraq, Iran, Greece, Southern Bulgaria, Southern Türkiye, probably Morocco ( Witt 1983; de Freina and Witt 1990; de Freina 1996; Yakovlev and Ströhle 2016; Kermal and Kocak 2016; Alipanah et al. 2021). It is the first record of Stygia in the South Caucasus. Host plant and immature stages are unknown. Yakovlev (2011 a) reported that members of the subfamily Stygiinae Rafinesque, 1815 are diurnal. Schoorl (1990), citing Daniel (1955), also described Stygia australis Latreille, [1803] and Stygia hades Le Cerf, 1924 as diurnal species but notes that S. mosulensis was collected at night. Since our specimen was also collected at night, it is possible that S. mosulensis may be a nocturnal or crepuscular species; this hypothesis requires further investigation into the species’ biology. Given the limited study of the Cossidae in the South Caucasus, it is likely that additional representatives of the genus Stygia may still await discovery in remote regions of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Figures

Figures 1–2. General habitus of Phragmacossia territa male, dorsal view (1). Stygia mosulensis female, dorsal view (2). Scale bars: 5 mm.