Polymixis subvenusta (Püngeler, 1906)

Fetnassi, Nidal, Er-rguibi, Omar, Aglagane, Abdessamad, Ghamizi, Mohamed & Õunap, Erki, 2025, Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 137839-e 137839 : e137839-

Polymixis subvenusta (Püngeler, 1906)

Notes

We collected seven specimens from Azgour, Taddart and Tamal. We provide illustrations of a male habitus in Fig. 15 a and male genitalia in Fig. 15 b . The genitalia of the dissected specimens did not correspond to any Polymixis species documented in literature used for this study. Thus, five speciemens were subjected to DNA barcoding, which revealed close to 2 % genetic distance within the sample. As some of the studied individuals had barcode almost identical (99.69 % match) to that of a P. subvenusta specimen presented in the BOLD database and genitalia of genetically most distant specimens were identical, we concluded that our material belongs to that species. P. subvenusta has been reported from the High Atlas Mountains by Rungs (1981).

Figures

Figure 15 a. Male, taken at Tamal, 07 / 11 / 2022. Scale: 1 cm;

Figure 15 b. Genitalia of male, taken at Taddart, 02 / 10 / 2021. Scale: 1 mm.