Open AccessOcnogyna mooseri, a new peculiar species from Libya (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Author(s) -
Günter C. Müller,
Aidas Saldaitis,
Anton V. Volynkin
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ecologica montenegrina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2337-0173
pISSN - 2336-9744
DOI - 10.37828/em.2022.50.3
Subject(s) - erebidae , lepidoptera genitalia , male genitalia , biology , genus , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , ecology
A new species of the genus Ocnogyna Graslin, [1837], O. mooseri sp. n. is described from north-eastern Libya. The female of the new species is fully winged but differs from all known species groups of Ocnogyna in a number of diagnostic features and is also externally reminiscent of Tajigyna gansoni Dubatolov, 1990 endemic to Tajikistan. The diagnostic comparison is made with the North African Ocnogyna advena (Fabricius, 1787) having externally similar males but brachypterous females and to the externally dissimilar Ocnogyna parasita (Hübner, 1790) species group having the most similar female genitalia structures.