Published September 2, 2026 | Version v1

Gnophos argillata Brandt 1938

  • 1. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq & Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Mendel, Brno, Czechia
  • 2. Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Mendel, Brno, Czechia
  • 3. Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Munich, Germany

Description

Gnophos argillata Brandt, 1938, comb. rev.

Not in Wiltshire (1957), new for Iraq. Not recorded from adjacent provinces of Iran (Rajaei et al. 2023), but with one record on BOLD for Iranian Kordestan.

New locality: Erbil: Choman, Halgurd Mt. (July).

Genetic data: BIN: BOLD:AAF8396 (BC_ZSM_Lep_121743). Well-matched DNA barcodes from south-eastern Turkey and Iranian Kordestan. Nearest neighbor on BOLD: Gnophos mardinaria (3.65%), questioning the genus combination of argillata with Charissa (see remarks).

Remarks: Originally described from province Fars (‘ Gnophos argillata ’), transferred to genus Charissa in Rajaei et al. (2023), herewith reversed to the original genus combination.

Notes

Published as part of Khudhur, Farhad A., Hula, Vladimír & Hausmann, Axel, 2026, An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of Iraqi Kurdistan, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 5875 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5875.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24070130

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Brandt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Gnophos
Species
argillata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gnophos argillata Brandt, 1938 sec. Khudhur, Hula & Hausmann, 2026

References

  • Brandt, W. (1938) Beitrag zur Lepidoteren-Fauna von Iran. Neue Gattungen, Arten und Formen. Entomologische Rundschau, 55, 497-505, 517 - 523, 548 - 554, 558 - 561, 567 - 574, 584 - 588, 597 - 602, 616 - 621, 632 - 634, 671 - 675, 698 - 699, 701 - 702.
  • Wiltshire, E. P. (1957) The Lepidoptera of Iraq. Nicholas Kaye Ltd, London & Baghdad, 162 pp.
  • Rajaei, H., Aarvik, L., Arnscheid, W. R., Baldizzone, G., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B. A., Bidzilya, O., Buchner, P., Buchsbaum, U., Buszko, J., Dubatolov, V. V., Erlacher, S., Esfandiari, M., De Freina, J. J., Gaedike, R., Gyulai, P., Hausmann, A., Haxaire, J., Hobern, D., Hofmann, A., Ignatev, N., Kaila, L., Kallies, A., Keil, T., Kiss, A., Kitching, I. J., Kun, A., Laszlo, G. M., Leraut, G., Mally, R., Matov, A., Meineke, J. - U., Melichar, T., Mey, W., Mironov, V., Muller, B., Naderi, A., Nassig, W. A., Naumann, S., Nazari, V., van Nieukerken, E. J., Nuss, M., Poll, N., Prozorov, A. M., Rabieh, M. M., Rakosy, L., Rindos, M., Rota, J., Rougerie, R., Schintlmeister, A., Shirvani, A., Sihvonen, P., Simonsen, T. J., Sinev, S. Yu., Skou, P., Sobczyk, T., Sohn, J. - C., Tabell, J., Tarmann, G., Tokar, Z., Trusch, R., Varga, Z., Volynkin, A. V., Wanke, D., Yakovlev, R. V., Zahiri, R., Zehzad, P., Zeller, H. C., Zolotuhin, V. V. & Karsholt, O. (2023) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Iran. In: Rajaei, H. & Karsholt, O. (Eds.), Lepidoptera Iranica. Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, 6 (Special Issue), 121-459. https://doi.org/10.18476/2023.997558.7