Lemonia strigata subsp. strigata Antoshin & Zolotuhin 2011
Creators: name: Prozorov, Alexey M.
name: Prozorova, Tatiana A.
name: Volkova, Julia S.
name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Nedoshivina, Svetlana V.
name: Pinzari, Manuela
name: Pinzari, Mario
name: Scalercio, Stefano
name: Bianco, Giovanni
name: Saldaitis, Aidas
name: Hausmann, Axel
name: Revay, Edita E.
name: Müller, Günter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lemoniidae
Lemonia
Lemonia strigata
Lemonia strigata strigata antoshin &amp; zolotuhin, 2011

description: Lemonia strigata strigata Antoshin & Zolotuhin, 2011
(Figs 32–48, 55–56, 74–84, 99–111, 114–115)
Lemonia strigata strigata Antoshin & Zolotuhin, 2011, Eversmannia, 25–26, 15.
= Lemonia taraxaci ab. strigata Rebel, 1910, Fr.Berge’s Schmetterlingsbuch nach dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Lepidopterologie neu bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Professor Dr. H. Rebel in Wien, 9, 131. Type locality: Croatia, Zadar. Female type was not found. Invalid infrasubspecific name.
? Lemonia taraxaci var. montana Buresch, 1915, Travaux de la Socieìteì Bulgare des Sciences Naturelles, 7, 100. Type locality: Bulgaria, Rhodope Mts, Musala. Female syntype known by color photo (NMNHS).
=? Lemonia taraxaci ab. antigone Stauder, 1913, Bollettino della Societa Adriatica di Scienze Naturali in Trieste, 27: 159. Type locality: Adriatic Sea coast. Types were not found. Invalid infrasubspecific name.
Diagnosis. L. strigata strigata is a Balkan subspecies, it has a 2.99% gap analysis distance from L. taraxaci, 2.82% from L. sibirica and 2.66% L. italiana sp. n. (Fig. 107). Externally and morphologically variable, no reliable characters were found to distinguish it from the Cycladic subspecies (see below) but it differs by a presence of a dark medial line from L. taraxaci, L. sibirica, and L. italiana sp. n.
Variability. Like in L. strigata above.
Distribution (Fig. 106). The Balkans.
Taxonomic notes. 1. Two barcoded males from Greece with a vague dark postmedial line (GWORQ826-10 and GWORQ827-10; Fig. 39) and the barcoded female from Bulgaria without the line but with a large triangular medial spot (LBEOW 786-10; Fig. 35) have only 0.76% genetic distance between. This proves that the postmedial line is not a stable diagnostic character for L. strigata, the same we see in Lemonia strigata deucalion Antoshin & Zolotuhin, 2011, from the Cycladic islands, some of the adults in the type series are clearly without a stripe (Figs 50–51). We know also a series of adults that were bred in the same year ex ovo probably from the same batch of eggs from Lithochoro, Greece (Figs 41–48), they have more or less pronounced postmedial line. Thus, we suggest that taraxaci -like adults without a stripe from the Balkans are just a variant of L. strigata and list them in examined material here, under L. strigata strigata.
2. The taxon L. taraxaci var. montana is known to us just like to Antoshin and Zolotuhin (2011) by a photo of a female syntype from NMNHS (Fig. 38) – it is a pale taraxaci -like worn specimen. According to a close genetic relationship between the typical L. strigata and taraxaci -like adults, we consider L. taraxaci var. montana to be a senior synonym of L. strigata, although leave the formal act of synonymy for the future when more Balkan adults will be barcoded.
Material examined: Croatia: ♂, Zadar, 0 m, 18.X.1988, leg. H. Modl (CGM); ♂, Mosor, 22.X.1974, leg. D. Müting (CGM). North Macedonia: ♂, Drenovo, Kavadar, leg. J. Thurner, 1– 3.10.1959, 1–10.X.1959, slide 14.443 (MWM / ZSM); ♂, Strumica, 5.X.1973, slide 14.446 (MWM / ZSM); 4♂, Prilep, 2–7.XI.1971, 2.XI.1972, 28.VIII.1973, 21.X.1973, slides 14.447, 14.449 (MWM / ZSM; CGM); ♂, Ohrid environs, 12–15.IX.1937, 24.IX– 3.X.1937, leg. Thurner (CGM). Bulgaria: ♀, syntype of montana Buresch, Musala, 2.VIII.1910, S. M. Ferdinand I, le Roi des Bulgares (NMNHS); ♂, Kresna Gorge, 8.X.1981, leg. J. Ganev, slide 14.520 (MWM / ZSM); ♂, Rupite, Kozhuh Heights, 21.X.1990 (CGM); ♂, ♀, Struma valley, 3 km SW of Kresna, 20.X.2014, leg. Babics & Benedek (CGM). Greece: ♂, ♀, Thermopilae, 60–100 m, 1.X.1971, 15.X.1977, leg. Lukasch (MWM / ZSM); ♂, Peloponnes, Lagkadia, 1200 m, 2.X.1977, leg. Lukasch (MWM / ZSM); ♂, Epirus, Thesprotia, Fascomillia, 20 m, 18.XI.1992, 14.X.1995, 15.XI.1999, leg. Schaider, slide 14.442 (MWM / ZSM; CGM); ♂, Igoumenitsa, Phascomillia, 9.XI.1992, leg. Schaider, slide 14.540 (MWM / ZSM); ♂, Tripoli, Stenon, 800 m, 12.VIII.1985, 21.VIII.1985, slide 14.541 (MWM / ZSM); 2♂, ♀, Peloponnes, 15 km S Tripoli, 700 m, 6.X.1982, leg. H. Hacker, slides 14.448, 14.527, 14.542 (MWM / ZSM); ♂, S Hellas, NE Peloponnes, Prov. Korinth, 8 km to coast region, 10 km SW Sofiko, 12 km NE Athikia, 37°46’47” N, 23°02’04” E, 22–23.X.2008, leg. Steidel, Mehlhom (CGM); ♂, Pieria Mts., Skotina, 40.0231° N, 22.5520° E, 700 m, 21.X.2014, leg. Babics, Benedek (CGM); 4♂, 4♀, Lithochoro, ex ovo, 10.X.1996, 23.X.1996, 4.XI.1996, leg. F. Hohensteiner (SMNS).
description: Published as part of Prozorov, Alexey M., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Yakovlev, Roman V., Nedoshivina, Svetlana V., Pinzari, Manuela, Pinzari, Mario, Scalercio, Stefano, Bianco, Giovanni, Saldaitis, Aidas, Hausmann, Axel, Revay, Edita E. & Müller, Günter C., 2022, Revision of the Lemonia taraxaci complex, with a description of a new species from Italy and clarification of the status of Lemonia strigata (Lepidoptera Brahmaeidae: Lemoniinae), pp. 337-360 in Zootaxa 5195 (4) on pages 346-348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7192987