The annotated list of Cossidae of Afghanistan consists of 44 species in 17 genera from the four subfamilies Catoptinae, Cossinae, Zeuzerinae, and Mehariinae. Three new species are described: Cossulus habibae Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Semagystia bamiani Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov., Phragmacossia bandeamiri Yakovlev, Pljustch, Skrylnik & Pak, sp. nov.; all from Band-e-Amir National Park in Bamian Province. Three species (Dervishiya cadambae (Moore, 1865), Semagystia cossoides (Graeser, 1892), Phragmacossia territa (Staudinger, 1879)) are reported for the first time from Afghanistan. A brief biogeographical analysis of the Cossidae of Afghanistan is given.
У этих 4 видов грубо скульптурированный наличник, точки которого несут торчащие щетинки, хорошо выраженный лобный шов и плотно пунктированная переднеспинка. От T. saryhissoricum новый вид легко отличается более гладкой переднеспинкой, рельеф которой лишен ясно выраженных извилистых килей; от T. armeniacum-менее грубыми и глубокими точками на голове и переднеспинке. Скульптура покровов T. dubium sp. n. практически «укладывается» в пределы изменчивости таковой T. medvedevi. Эти два таксона можно определить только по строению наружного полового аппарата самцов. Парамеры T. dubium sp. n. отличаются от близких видов более узкой хитинизированной частью при основании.
A new species from the Callophrys paulae Pfeiffer, 1932 species group--C. succuba sp. n.--is described from the mountains of Central Afghanistan, Bamyan Province. The new species differs from the geographically close C. p. jomuda Nekrutenko & Tshikolovets in morphology of the male and female genitalia along with the distinct wavy shape of the postdiscal white line on the hindwing underside. Discovery of the new species from C. paulae species group extends known distribution range of the group to the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau in Central Afghanistan.
CAUCASIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL BULLETIN Ростов-на-Дону 2012 РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК Институт аридных зон ЮНЦ RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Arid Zones SSC Новый вид рода Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) из Центрального Таджикистана A new species of the genus Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896
А new species and a new subspecies of Satyrium Scudder, 1876 (subfamily Theclinae, tribe Eumaeini) from the subgenera Superflua Strand, 1910 and Armenia Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984 respectively are described from Bamyan Province, Central Afghanistan—S. (S.) skrylniki sp. n. and S. (A.) hyrcanica bamiana ssp. n. The new species of Superflua belongs to the Iranian complex of species. It inhabits the territory of Afghanistan, being isolated from two other species of the subgenus known from the territory in question. The new subspecies of Armenia is also found in isolation both from the nominate subspecies and two Middle and Central Asian subspecies. Both findings clarify some aspects of zoogeography of the Central Afghanistan mountains.
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