Neolycaena (Rhymnaria) tangutica
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, GSP- 1, korp. 12, Moscow 119991, Russia. & Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect, 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia. nephrurus @ yandex. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6095 - 3570
Description
Neolycaena (Rhymnaria) tangutica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
(Figs. 14, 15, 21, 24, 35, 41)
Lycaena tengstroemi var. tangutica — Grum-Grshimailo 1891: 452.
Neolycaena davidi tangutica — Lukhtanov 1993: 65; Zhdanko 1998: 658.
Neolycaena tangutica — Churkin 2004: 197.
Neolycaena (Rhymnaria) tangutica — Weidenhoffer et al. 2004: 73; 2016: 75; Weidenhoffer & Šumpich 2017: 278.
Material. 4 ♂ (1 dissected), 1 ♀ (dissected), China, Qinghai Prov., Xining City, 36°36’N 101°46’E, 2400 m, 29.VI.2013, A.V. Krupitsky leg. (AKM); 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (dissected), China, Gansu Prov., Gannan Prefecture, Xiahe County, Xiahe (H河), Daxia River (±H河) valley SE slope, N 35°10’50” E 102°30’34”, 3000–3300 m, 26.VII.2016, Krupitsky A.V. leg. (AKM); 20 ♂ (5 dissected), 15 ♀ (3 dissected), China, Gansu Prov., Gannan Prefecture, Xiahe County, Xiahe (H河), Daxia River (±H河) valley SE slope, N 35°12’47” E 102°29’18”, 3100–3500 m, 27.VII.2016, Krupitsky A.V. leg. (AKM).
Diagnosis. This species differs from all the known species of the N. (R.) davidi species group in the very dark colouration and drop-shaped white spots of the postdiscal row of the ventral side of the hindwing connected with the submarginal row by white scales, as well as the indistinct androconia in the male forewing. The female anal tuft is greyish black, consisting of mixture of black and grey scales, in contrast with the black anal tuft in N. (R.) davidi, pale in N. (R.) kozlovi and grey in N. (R.) markhasiovi sp. n. The male genitalia clearly differ from those of the other species of the N. (R.) davidi group in the long narrow genital capsule and the long valva. The female genitalia generally share characters with those of N. (R.) davidi but the basal projection of the ductus is very short.
Distribution and bionomics. Distributed in the Qilian (Nan Shan) Mountains in Qinghai and Gansu provinces. According to field observations in 2013 in eastern Qinghai Province (Xining City) and in 2016 in southern Gansu (Xiahe valley), the host plant is Caragana tangutica in Qinghai and C. densa in Gansu, respectively.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AKM
- Event date
- 2013-06-29 , 2016-07-26 , 2016-07-27
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-06-29 , 2016-07-26 , 2016-07-27
- Scientific name authorship
- Grum-Grshimailo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Neolycaena
- Species
- tangutica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neolycaena (Rhymnaria) tangutica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) sec. Krupitsky, 2021
References
- Grum-Grshimailo, G. E. (1891) Lepidoptera nova in Asia centrali novissime lecta et descripta. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rosicae, 25, 445 - 465.
- Lukhtanov, V. A. (1993) Eine Ubersicht uber die Arten der Gattung Neolycaena mit den Beschreibungen einer neuen Art und einer neuen Unterart aus Kasachstan. Atalanta, 24 (1 / 2), 61 - 70.
- Zhdanko, A. B. (1998) A review of the genus Neolycaena de Niceville, 1890 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) with descriptions of the new subspecies. Entomologicheskoe obozreniye, 77 (4), 639 - 662. [in Russian]
- Churkin, S. (2004) A review of Neolycaena de Niceville, 1890 from South Siberia, Mongolia and North China with the descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Helios, 5, 153 - 218.
- Weidenhoffer, Z., Bozano, G. C., Zhdanko, A. & Churkin, S. (2004) Guide to the butterflies of the Palearctic Region. Lycaenidae. Part II. Omnes Artes, Milano, 94 pp.
- Weidenhoffer, Z., Bozano, G. C., Zhdanko, A. & Churkin, S. (2016) Guide to the butterflies of the Palearctic Region. Lycaenidae. Part II. 2 nd Edition. Omnes Artes, Milano, 106 pp.
- Weidenhoffer, Z. & Sumpich, J. (2017) Neolycaena (Rhymnaria) arcana sp. nov. from Tibet (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 57 (1), 257 - 258. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / aemnp- 2017 - 0074