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Dieida ledereri Staudinger 1871

  • 1. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
  • 2. Ecology Department Altai State Uni., Lenina 61, Barnaul, RUS- 656049, Russia
  • 3. Museum Witt Tengstrasse, 33 D- 80796 Munich, Germany
  • 4. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, LT- 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania

Description

Dieida ledereri Staudinger, 1871

(Fig. 22)

Stygia ledereri Staudinger, 1871a, Cat. Lep. Eur. Faun. 1: 61.

LT: Külek im Taurus [Turkey]. Type material (holotype) in MHUB.

Dieida persa Strand in Stichel, 1911, syn. n.

Dieida persa Strand in Stichel, 1911, Zeitschr. Wiss. Ins.-Biol. 7 (5/6): 163.

LT: Prov. Arrak [Iran]. Type material (syntypes) in MHUB, probably lost.

Material examined. HMIM: Esfahân Prov.: 1 ♀, Semirom, Dolat Gharin, N 31°32΄22.1˝, E 51°37΄26.8˝, 2750 m, 13.v.2007, leg. Gilâsiân.

Diagnosis. In both Dieida persa and D. ledereri the thorax, abdomen and wings are covered with orange scales. Both species are also known only by females. As revealed in this study, no external and morphological differences were observed between the populations from Turkey, Iran and Transcaucasia. The type of D. ledereri was also compared with non-type specimens of D. persa collected in Iran and no differences were found. Therefore, D. persa is being considered as junior synonym of D. ledereri.

Distribution. Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Azerbaijan (Staudinger 1879a; Staudinger & Rebel 1901; Schoorl 1990; Yakovlev 2009a, 2010, 2011a; Yakovlev & Pljustch 2014; Yakovlev et al. 2015a).

Distribution in Iran. Arak (Markazi Province) and Semirom (Esfahan Province) (Yakovlev 2009a, 2011a) (Fig. 35E).

Notes

Published as part of Alipanah, Helen, Yakovlev, Roman, Falsafi, Hossein, Witt, Thomas & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2021, 5062, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 5062 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5062.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5808035

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HMIM , MHUB
Event date
2007-05-13
Verbatim event date
2007-05-13
Scientific name authorship
Staudinger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Cossidae
Genus
Dieida
Species
ledereri
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Dieida ledereri Staudinger, 1871 sec. Alipanah, Yakovlev, Falsafi, Witt & Saldaitis, 2021

References

  • Staudinger, O. (1871 a) In: Staudinger, O. & Wocke, M. F. (Eds.), Catalog der Lepidopteren des europaeischen Faunengebiets. I. Macrolepidoptera. Hofbuchhandlung von Hermann Burdach, Dresden, pp. 61 - 63.
  • Stichel, H. (1911) Lepidopterologische Ergebnisse einer Sammelreise der Gebruder Rangnow nach Persien. Mit Neubeschreibungen von R. Pungeler, E. Strand und dem Autor. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, 7 (5 / 6), 160 - 167.
  • Staudinger, O. (1879 a) Lepidopteren-Fauna Kleinasien's. Horae Societatis Entomologique Rossicae, 14, 340 - 350.
  • Staudinger, O. & Rebel, H. (1901) In: Staudinger, O. & Rebel, H. (Eds.), Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes I. Theil: Famili. Papilionidae - Hepialidae. Third edition. R. Friedlanger und Sohn, Berlin, pp. 1 - 411
  • Schoorl, J. W. (1990) A phylogenetic study on Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) based on external adult morphology. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 263, 1 - 295.
  • Yakovlev, R. V. (2009 a) Dieida judith Yakovlev, sp. n. - new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) from Israel and Jordan. Amurian Zoological Journal, 1 (1), 56 - 57. [in Russian]
  • Yakovlev, R. V. (2010) Cossidae of Israel. Atalanta, 41 (3 / 4), 465 - 469.
  • Yakovlev, R. V. (2011 a) Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 66, 1 - 129.
  • Yakovlev, R. V. & Pljustch, I. G. (2014) Dieida Strand, 1911 - a new genus of cossid millers (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) for the fauna of Afghanistan. Amurian Zoological Journal, 6 (1), 75 - 76. [in Russian]
  • Yakovlev, R. V., Pljustch, I. G., Skrylnik, Yu. & Pak, O. (2015 a) The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park. Zootaxa, 3990 (1), 41 - 72. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3990.1.3