Clytie illunaris (Hübner, 1813)

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-

Clytie illunaris (Hübner, 1813)

Notes

One hundred and six specimens were collected from most of our sampling sites, except for Talatast and Ait Ouiksane. One female specimen is illustrated in Fig. 5 e . Rungs (1981) noted that there had been limited instances where C. illunaris had been confused with C. sancta (Staudinger, 1898) , suggesting that the references he cited for this species, Le Cerf (1924), Audeoud and Roch (1938) and Rungs (1938) might actually pertain to C. sancta , given that collectors often sampled in areas where C. sancta was abundant. Although Rungs (1981) did not personally encounter C. illunaris in the dissected material he examined, he posited that the species must inhabit areas where Tamarix spp . are present. Our specimens were verified through genitalia dissection and DNA barcoding, which provided a 99 % match with C. illunaris .

Figures

Figure 5 e. Female Clytie illunaris (Hübner), Ighalene, 23 / 09 / 2022;