Notes on the Agrotis colossa Boursin problem, with the description of new Agrotis species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Abstract

The description of Agrotis colossa as sp. n. became necessary, since the original description has never been published and the manuscript was not found in the Boursin heritage. The original name and designation was accepted, however, the type material (holotype male and single allotype female) was completed with a series of males and females from the recent expeditions. The description of Agrotis rachingeri sp. n. is also given and the DNA results in case of both species. New taxa are illustrated with imagines in colour and male and female genitalia.

Agrotis fatidica (Hübner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

“…The Agrotis fatidica-group belongs to such a disputed species-complex reflected by unstable taxonomic treatment in various monographic papers (e.g. Fibiger 1997;Fibiger et al 2010;Gyulai et al 2017;Kononenko 2005;Nupponen et al 2001;Volynkin 2012), and through the description of two new species from Europe during the last few decades, namely A. proverai from Italy (Fibiger et al 2010) andA. luehri from Norway (von Mentzer andMoberg 1987).…”