A new species of Pharmacis Hübner, 1820 from Spain with a brief review of the genera Pharmacis and Korscheltellus Börner, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae)

By

Kallies, Axel, 1971-
Farino, Teresa

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-11-9

Original Publication

Nota lepidopterologica

Volume

41

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

225--249

Subjects

ghost moths

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bonn,

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.26835

 

Abstract

We here describe a new ghost moth (Hepialidae) species,Pharmaciscantabricussp. n.from the Picos de Europa National Park, Cantabria, in northern Spain. The new species belongs to a group of mostly day-flying species that are restricted to the European Alps and some mountain ranges of southern Europe. Based on morphology and analysis of mitochondrial COI gene sequences, the new species is closely related toPharmacisaemilianus(Constantini, 1911), an endemic of the Italian Apennines. However,Pharmaciscantabricussp. n.can easily be distinguished from all related species based on both external and genitalic characters. We briefly review and illustrate all species of the genusPharmacisHübner, 1820 and discuss its relationship with the related genusKorscheltellusBörner, 1920. We reinstateHepialuscastillanusOberthür, 1883 as a distinct species and transfer it toKorscheltellus(stat. rev.,comb. n.).