Repetekiodes acervella
Creators: name: Tsvetkov, Eugene
name: Trofimova, Tatyana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Repetekiodes
Repetekiodes acervella

description: Repetekiodes acervella (Erschoff, 1874)
Alispa acervella Erschoff, 1874. Izvestiya Imperatorskago Obshchestva Lubitelei Estestvoznaniya, Antropologii i Etnografii, 11 (2): 90, pl. 5, fig. 94. TL: Kyzylkum sands.
= Salebria atritorella Zerny, 1914
Type material examined. Lectotypus of acervella ♂, “Русский Туркестанъ.” | “28.” [28.iv.1871] | “acervella. Ersch.” | “coll. Erschov. ” | “0370/ S.Yu.Sinev | “Lectotypus ♀, Alispa acervella, Ersch., design. S.Yu. Sinev ”; Paralectotypus of acervella 2 ♀, “Туркестанъ Федченко” | “Туркестанъ, КЫЗЫл-Кум, 28.iv.1871, А.П. Федченко” | “ 28.iv.1871 ” | “ Alispa acervella. Ersch.” | “ Alispa acervella Erschov., N. Erschow det.” | “Paralectotypus ♀, Alispa acervella, Ersch., design. S.Yu. Sinev ” (all ZIN).
Material examined. Kazakhstan, Almaty Province: 2 ♂, Sary-Tau-Kum sands, near Aidarly, Ili river, 11.v.1967, leg. Seitova; 1 ♂, 180 km NW of Alma-Ata, Taukum, botanical station, 16.v.1987, leg. Falkovitsh (all ZIN); Kyzylorda Province: ♂, Aral Lake, Karatup peninsular, N 46°02′, E 59°43′, 7.v.2004, leg. Trofimova (A06- 2010; PBLEA196-11); 2 ♂, the same data (prep. № 4091, Trofimova T.A.); Aktobe Province: 1 ♂, Kauldgur river, Kompressorny village, N 48°03′43′′, E 59°19′44′′, 5.v.2004, leg. Trofimova; 1 ♂, Shagyrai Plateau, N 46°52′, E 57°31′, 25.v.2006, leg. Trofimova & Shovkoon; (E03-2011; PBLEA336-11) (all CTT); Mangistau Province: 1 ♂, 28km S Sai-Utyes, 100m, N 43°57′, E 53°45′, 13–14.v.2007, leg. Trofimova & Shovkoon; 2 ♂, 42 km SW Sai-Utyes, 100m, N 43°57′, E 53°45′, 15.v.2007, leg. Trofimova & Shovkoon; 2 ♂, 53 km SW Sai-Utyes, 100 m, N 43°44′, E 53°37 ′′, 16.v.2007, leg. Trofimova & Shovkoon; 14 ♂, 7 ♀, Bostankum sands, N 43°40′, E 53°13′, 11–12.v.2016, leg. Shovkoon (all CTT); 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 11 km N Beineu, hills on the left bank of the river, 15.v.2016, leg. Tsvetkov; 7 ♂, 3 ♀, 43 km SE Shetpe, sands, N 43°50′44′′, E 52°32′40′′, 4.v.2019, leg. Tsvetkov (all ET); Jambyl Province: 3 ♂, 1 ♀, Muyunkum sands, N 44°17′, E 70°10′, 9–13.v.2015, leg. Shovkoon; Turkestan Province: 4 ♂, 50 km NW of Ashisay, Kyzylkol Lake, h= 328m, N 43°46′, E 69°30′, 9.v.2017, leg. Shovkoon; 5 ♂, 3 ♀, Kyzylkum, Desert, sand dunes, h= 217m, N 42°18′, E 67°33′, 11.v.2017, leg. Shovkoon (all CTT). Uzbekistan: 3 ♂, 4 ♀, 7 км N Tamdy-Bulak, Kyzylkum, 1–6.v.1965, leg. Falkovitsh; 1 ♀, 60 km SE Uchkuduk, Kyzylkum, 6.v.1966, leg. Pastukhov; 1 ♀, Zhamansai, Kyzylkum, leg. Falkovitsh (all ZIN); Turkmenistan: 1 ♂, Repetek, 24.iv.1970, leg. Guryeva (ZIN).
Biology. The species inhabits different types of semi-deserts. Flight period in April and May. Host plant is unknown.
Distribution. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan (Ragonot 1983; Sinev 1990; Roesler 1993; Slamka 2019).
Molecular data (Table 1–2. Fig. 1). The species has a BIN (Barcode Index Number) in the BOLD: AAU5717 (n=4; sequence length 658 bp in all specimens). Mean intraspecific variation 0.08%. Maximum intraspecific distance 0.15%. Neighbour BIN AAV5716 includes a single specimen of R. turanella sp. nov. with a minimum interspecific COI p-distance of 3.53%.
description: Published as part of Tsvetkov, Eugene & Trofimova, Tatyana, 2024, Description of two new species of the genus Repetekiodes Amsel, 1961 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Central Asia with faunal notes on the genus, pp. 176-188 in Zootaxa 5424 (2) on pages 179-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10821021