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Issue: Vol. 4926 No. 2: 5 Feb. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-02-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.9
Page range: 293–295
Abstract views: 94
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Description of a new species and a new record of the genus Nola Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae) from Tibet, China

Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, Lhasa, 850001, Tibet, China
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
Lepidoptera Research Group, School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China
Lepidoptera Nolidae Nolinae

Abstract

The genus Nola was established with the western Palaearctic species Noctua cucullatella (Linnaeus, 1758) described from Austria as its type species. Nola occurs in all continents except the Antarctica and contains more than 200 valid Eurasian and North African taxa (László et al., 2014). The genus Nola can be easily distinguished from other genera of Nolinae with the distinctive features as the degenerate uncus, the divided valva with the ventral valval lobe bearing the harpe and a curved carina process in male genitalia. In our recent survey, we report a new species Nola senmuzhaensis sp. nov. and a new record of Nola sikkima (Moore, 1888) from Tibet, China. Adults and genitalia are illustrated. The type specimens are deposited in Southwest University of Science and Technology (SWUST).

 

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