Sergey Titov

First record of the genus Shargacucullia G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from the Altai Mountains

The genus Shargacucullia G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 is recorded in Altai Mountains (eastern Kazakhstan) for the first time. Three species, S. (Verbascullia) verbasci (Linnaeus, 1758), S. (Shargacucullia) xylophana (Boursin, 1934) and S. (Shargacucullia) nekrasovi G. Ronkay, L. Ronkay & Gyulai, 2011 are reported in the Tarbagatai Ridge and West Altai Mountains. These are the north-easternmost known localities of the species. Adults, genitalia and habitats of the species are illustrated.

Description of male of Dasypolia volynkini Ronkay, Ronkay, Gyulai & Pekarsky, 2014 with data on bionomics of the species.

Noctuidae is one of the most species-rich families of Lepidoptera (Nieukerken et al. 2011). The Palaearctic noctuid genus Dasypolia Guenee includes more than a hundred species some of which are still undescribed. The genus is distributed predominantly in the mountain massifs of Asia, reaching the highest species diversity in the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. Many species of Dasypolia have been described during last three decades (Hacker & Peks 1990, 1992, 1996; Ronkay & Varga 1990; Ronkay et al. 1991; Ronkay & Plante 1992; Ronkay & Zilli 1993; Gyulai & Ronkay 1995; Hreblay & Ronkay 1995, 1999; Ronkay et al. 1995; Hacker & Ronkay 1996; Hreblay & Ronkay 1998; Hreblay et al. 1998; Ronkay et al. 1998; Ivinskis & Saldaitis 2010; Benedek et al. 2011; Volynkin 2012; Benedek et al. 2014; Ronkay et al. 2014; Benedek & Saldaitis 2014). The genus is now subdivided into twelve subgenera, six of which have recently been described by Benedek et al. (2011) and Benedek & Saldaitis (2014). One subgenus, Tschetwerikovia Bundel, 1966 has been synonymised with the nominate subgenus by Ronkay et al. (2014).

A new species of Euchalcia Hübner, [1821] from Kazakhstan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae).

The Holarctic genus Euchalcia Hübner, [1821] belongs to the tribe Plusiini of the subfamily Plusiinae. The genus is one of the largest in the Plusiinae, comprising about 54 described species. The systematics of Eurasian and North African members of the genus was recently revised (Ronkay et al. 2008). In June 2013, in the course of faunistic studies on Noctuidae of the Tarbagatai Mts. (East Kazakhstan), a long series of an undescribed species of the genus was collected. Two additional specimens from the Dzhungarsky Alatau Mts. (South-East Kazakhstan) were found in the collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum (Novosibirsk). The species is described herein as new. It belongs to the E. inconspicua group within the E. inconspicua species-complex (Ronkay et al. 2008). The E. inconspicua group comprises two described species only: E. inconspicua (Graeser, 1892) and E. anthea L. Ronkay, G. Ronkay & Behounek, 2008. The new species is the northernmost member of the group. Institutional acronyms are as follows: AVB-coll. A.V. Volynkin, Barnaul, Russia; MČK-coll. M. Černila, Kamnik, Slovenia; NHMW-Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; STP-coll. S.V. Titov, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan; SZMN-Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematic and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), ZISP-Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

A new Perigrapha Lederer, 1857 from South Kazakhstan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

A new species of the genus Perigrapha, P. yasawii sp. n. is described from Syrdarya river valley, South Kazakhstan. The adults and male genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.

Cucullia tiefi Tshetverikov, 1956 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): new data on the distribution

A very rare little-known species Cucullia tiefi Tshetverikov, 1956 recorded in North-East Kazakhstan for the first time. The adults, male and female genitalia are illustrated. The structure of male vesica is discussed.