Published November 7, 2024 | Version v1
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Callophrys paulae subsp. kolak Higgins 1965

  • 1. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1 - 12, Moscow, 119192, Russia & Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

Description

Callophrys paulae kolak Higgins, 1965

(Fig. 1, 3)

Material: 1 male, 1 female, Iraq, Erbil Governorate, Choman District, Halgurd Mountain, 36°44’50.3”N 44°50’48.8”E, 3077 m, 28.VI.2024, S.H. Ahmed & S.I. Majeed leg.

General distribution: Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan (Krupitsky et al. 2015).

Diagnosis. Externally, this species can be easily distinguished from other Callophrys species of the region in question by the small androconial spot, forewing with straight outer margin, slightly serrated hindwing with poorly developed anal lobe and usually well-developed white postdiscal row of spots on the both wing undersides (Krupitsky et al. 2015). Specimens from Iraq do not externally differ from those known from Hakkari Province (Turkey) and the Iranian Zagros (Fig. 2).

Notes

Published as part of Ahmed, Soran H., Krupitsky, Anatoly V. & Majeed, Soma I., 2024, Two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) recorded as new for the fauna of Iraq, pp. 147-150 in Zootaxa 5537 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5537.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/14239395

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2024-06-28
Verbatim event date
2024-06-28
Scientific name authorship
Higgins
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Callophrys
Species
kolak
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Callophrys paulae subsp. kolak Higgins, 1965 sec. Ahmed, Krupitsky & Majeed, 2024

References

  • Higgins, L. G. (1965) Five new butterflies. The Entomologist, 98, 10 - 12.
  • Krupitsky, A. V., Pljushtch, I. G. & Pak, O. V. (2015) A new species of the Callophrys paulae Pfeiffer, 1932 species group from Afghanistan (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zootaxa, 4027 (2), 281 - 286. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4027.2.7