Taxonomic review of the genus Hydria Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) in the Middle East, with description of three new species and one new subspecies

Abstract

The species of the genus Hydria in the Middle East are revised. The revision is based on morphological examination and genetic data (DNA-barcode). Additionally, information on the habitat preference, pre-imaginal stages and biology of the species are given as much as available. Three species (H. gernoti sp. n., H. schachti sp. n., H. loebeli sp. n.) and one subspecies (Hydria cervinalis taurica ssp. n.) are described as new to science. The taxonomic status of Hydria hyrcana (Staudinger, 1871) as bona species could be confirmed. The East African species, Hydria relicta (Herbulot. 1953) comb. n., is transferred from genus Rheumaptera to Hydria. Wing pattern and genitalia structures of all discussed species are illustrated.

Further studies on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) fauna of Kerman province, southeast Iran

“…According to the latter study, one of the early important Lepidoptera expeditions in Kerman was carried out in 1956 by the German entomologist Willi Richter . Later, and until recently several other publications were listed as results of exploring Kerman province by other lepidopterists (e.g., Hacker & Kautt, 1999;Hacker & Meineke, 2001;Ebert & Hacker, 2002;Rajaei, 2010;Rajaei et al, , 2012Shirvani, 2012a;Shahreyari-Nejad et al, 2018Rajaei et al, 2019Rajaei et al, , 2022Wanke et al, 2019Wanke et al, , 2020Arnscheid et al, 2021;Stadie et al, 2022).…”