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Alcis extinctaria

  • 1. Plant Science College, Xizang Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi 860000, China.
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Xizang Plateau, Ministry of Education (Institute of Plateau Ecology, Xizang Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University), Linzhi 860000, China.
  • 3. Forestry technical guidance station, Forestry and grassland Bureau of Qin ' an County, Tianshui, Gansu 741000, China
  • 4. State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Description

Alcis extinctaria (Eversmann, 1851)

(Figs 10, 19, 27)

Boarmia extinctaria Eversmann, 1851: 638. Syntype (s), Russia: Irkutsk.

Boarmia (Alcis) extinctaria poktussaria Wehrli, 1943: 505, pl. 44: b. Syntype (s), North Korea: Poktussan, 2500 m (ZFMK). Boarmia (Alcis) extinctaria sinextincta Wehrli, 1943: 505. Syntype (s), China: Szechuan (Sichuan), Sung-pan-ting (ZFMK). Boarmia exustaria Staudinger, 1892: 378, pl. 3, fig. 9. Syntypes 20 ♂ ♀, Mongolia: Kentei.

Alcis extinctaria: Viidalepp, 1979: 791.

Material examined. Xizang (XAAHU): 1♂, Nyingchi, Mêdog 80k, 2118 m, 9.vii.2018, leg. Pan Zhaohui; 1♂, Nyingchi, Sejila mountain, 3780 m, 18.vii.2020, leg. Xian Chunlan.

Diagnosis. As stated in the former species, A. extinctaria is close to A. sinadmissa on external features, but they can be differentiated by the male genitalia. In A. extinctaria, the processes of the ampulla are much shorter, and the basal part of the juxta is completely divided, and the two processes are considerably apart.

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Xizang), Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korean Peninsula.

Notes

Published as part of Yu, Xia, Jiang, Xinrui, Wang, Han, Pan, Zhaohui & Han, Hongxiang, 2025, The genus Alcis Curtis, 1826 from Xizang, China, including a new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae), pp. 444-450 in Zootaxa 5711 (3) on page 448, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/17884058

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
XAAHU
Event date
2018-07-09 , 2020-07-18
Verbatim event date
2018-07-09 , 2020-07-18
Scientific name authorship
Eversmann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Alcis
Species
extinctaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Alcis extinctaria (Eversmann, 1851) sec. Yu, Jiang, Wang, Pan & Han, 2025

References

  • Eversmann, E. (1851) Description de quelques nouvelles especes de Lepidopteres de la Russie. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 24 (2), 610-644.
  • Staudinger, O. (1892) Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 5 (2), 300-393.
  • Viidalepp, J. (1979) A list of the Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the USSR. Communication 1 - 4. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 58, 782-798.