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Acteniopsis kurdistanella Amsel 1959
Authors/Creators
- 1. Bitlis Eren University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, 13000, Bitlis, Türkiye.
- 2. Bitlis Eren University, Graduate School, Department of Biology, 13000, Bitlis, Türkiye.
Description
Acteniopsis kurdistanella Amsel, 1959
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Material examined: Türkiye, Diyarbakır Province, Eğil District, 1♂ 2♀ Balaban Village, 30.08.2021; 2♂ Baysu Village, 03.08.2019; 1♂ Düzlük Village, 05.07.2021; 21♂ 25♀ Selman Village, 26.06.2021, leg. Y. Orak.
Distribution: Iraq, Iran (Amsel 1959; 1961) and Türkiye (this study).
Remarks: Alipanah and Asselbergs (2018) redefined the female genitalia of the species and provided detailed information on the antennal structure of the adult and the gnathos of the male genitalia. They also evaluated the taxonomic status of A. kurdistanella f. unicolorella, described by Amsel in 1961, in terms of its designation as a subspecies or form.
Notes
Published as part of Akin, Kesran & Orak, Yilmaz, 2025, New Pyraloids (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from Southeast Türkiye with the description of Tephris yildizae sp. nov., pp. 270-276 in Zootaxa 5686 (2) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/16985690
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2019-03-08 , 2021-05-07 , 2021-06-26 , 2021-08-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-03-08 , 2021-05-07 , 2021-06-26 , 2021-08-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Amsel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Acteniopsis
- Species
- kurdistanella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acteniopsis kurdistanella Amsel, 1959 sec. Akin & Orak, 2025
References
- Amsel, H. G. (1959) Irakische Kleinschmetterlinge, II. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, Le Caire, 43, 41-83.
- Amsel, H. G. (1961) Die Microlepidopteren der Brandt'schen Iran-Ausbeute. 5. Teil. Arkiv for Zoologi, New Series, Series 2, Stockholm, 13 (17), 323-445, pls. 1 - 9.
- Alipanah, H. & Asselbergs, J. (2018) Acteniopsis gambronensis sp. n. (Pyralidae: Pyralinae), a new species from Iran, with a revision of the genus Acteniopsis Amsel, 1959. Nota Lepid., 41 (1), 87-97. https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.22893