Scotopteryx kurmanjiana, a new species from the Kopet-Dagh Mountains (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)

By

Sh., Hossein Rajaei
László, Gyula M., 1970-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

Nota lepidopterologica

Volume

37

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

37--42

Subjects

Geometridae , Larentiinae , Lepidoptera

Contributed by

BioStor

Language

English

Published by

Bonn,

Identifiers

BioStor: https://biostor.org/reference/145125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.37.7954

 

Abstract

Scotopteryx kurmanjiana sp. n. is described from the Kopet-Dagh Mountains in Northeast Iran and South Turkmenistan. The new species is considered to be closely related to Scotopteryx kuznetzovi (Wardikian, 1957) described from Armenia. Detailed description of the external morphology and the genitalia characters of the male with six colour photographs and two illustrations of genitalia are provided.