Paragona cognata Staudinger 1892
Creators: name: Kononenko, Vladimir S.
name: Han, Hui-Lin
name: Yu, Alexej
name: V, Ато
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Paragona
Paragona cognata

description: Paragona cognata (Staudinger, 1892)
(Figs. 1, 17, 29)
Boletobia cognata Staudinger, 1892, in Romanoff N.M.(ed.), Mémories sur les Lépidoptéres. 6: 606. Type-locality: Russia Primorye: Askold I., Suifun [Razdolnaya] river. Syntypes: MNHU, Berlin.
Material examined. Types: Syntype: female [Russia] Suifun, Dorris/ Origin. (MNHU). Other material: Russia: Krasnojarsk terr.: 2 males, vicinity of Minusinsk, 17.vii.1922, 18.vii.1924 (I.V. Kozhanchikov); 6 males, Minusinsk, 17.vii.–2.viii.1925 (Kravchenko & Tzygankov); Irkutsk region: 1 male, Baikal, M. Koty (unknown collector); 10 males, Burjatia republic: 4 females, Ulan-Ude, 21–24.vii.1956 (V.D. Kolmakova); Chita region: 1 male, 5 km SW of mouth of Budjunkan river, 25.vii.2002 (V.V. Dubatolov); 1 male, “Transbaikalia, Dahuria, Nizhnii Chassuchei, 18.vii.1988 (I. Kostjuk) (ZMHU); Amur region: 1 female, Blagoveshchensk (Graeser); 3 males,, 75 km W of Svobodnyj, 25–29.vii.1959 (M.I. Falkovich); 1 male, 40 km W of Svobodnyj, Klimoutsy, 17.vii.1958 (V.I. Kuznetzov); 1 female, between rivers Malaya Pera and Bolshaya Ergelja, 14.vii.1958 (I.L. Sukhareva); Khabarovsk terr.: 1 male, Bolshekhekhtsyrskij nature reserve, Chirki, 48°11’ N 134°41’ E, 14.vii.2005 (V.V. Dubatolov); Primorye terr.: Pozharsky distr. 1 male, Verkhnij Pereval, 20.vii.1990 (S.Ju. Sinev); Olginsy distr.: 4 females, Olga, 26.vii.–1.viii.1991 (A.V. Nekrasov); Lazovsky distr.: 1 male, Lazovsky Nature reserve, Glazkovka 28.viii.1992 (Z.F. Kljutschko), misidentified as Paragona inchoata (ZFMK); 1 male, 43 16’N, 134 08’E, Lazovsky Nature Reserve, 5–9.viii.1998 (Kullberg & Kaare) (ZMHU); Partizansky distr.: 1 male, 2 females, “Suchan” [Partizansk], 26.vii–3.viii.1928 (A. Kurentzov); 1 male, female, “Suchanskij rudnik” [Partizansk], 16–19.vii.1938 (Palshkov); 1 female, Tigrovoi, 28.vii.1928 (A. Kurentzov); 2 males, Tigrovoi, 5–12.vii.1975 (V. Kononenko); Jakovlevsky distr.: 4 males, 2 females, Jakovlevka, 10.vii.–10.ix.1926 (A.M. Djakonov & I.N. Filipjev); Pogranichny distr., Barabash- Levada: 6 males, 4 females, 10–18.vii.1979 (V. Kononenko); 2 males, female, 9–11.viii.1989 (Nikiforova); 1 female, 2.vii.–2.viii.1994 (A. Danchenko); Ussuriisky distr. 1 male, “Nikolsk-Ussuriensis”, 2.viii.1923 (G. Dulkeit); 1female, Gornotaezhnoe, 30.vii.1982 (S.Ju. Sinev); 1 female, Doliny 12–19.vii.1981 (Nagomatulin, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov); 1 male, 20 km SW of Krounovka, Medveditsa river, 12.08.1999 (S.Ju. Sinev); Khasansky distr.: 5 males, 4 females, 5–12.vii.1987, Kedrovaya Pad Nature reserve (V. Kononenko); 2 male, 1 female, Ryazanovka, 26–29.vii.2005 (V. Kononenko); 1 male, Russia, Andreevka, 42 37’N, 131 08’E, 15.viii.1998 (Kullberg & Kaare); Nadezhdinsky distr., De-Friz peninsula: 4 males, female, 29.vii.1955, 27.vii.–13.viii.1960, 5.vii.1961 (M. Omel’ko); 1 female, 5.viii.1954 (Kolosov, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov).Vladivostok: 2 males, Sedanka, 20.vii.–2.viii.1918 (Kriger-Vojnovskij);
Diagnosis. Superficially, P. cognata (Figs. 1). differs from P. multisignata in darker, more uniform browngrey with pale lilac suffusion wing colour darker in medial field, more dentate crosslines and absence of metallic-shining scales on abdomen. In male genitalia, (Fig. 17) valva slightly split, tip of costa short, slightly curved on the apex; harpe thin and longer than in P. multisignata. In female genitalia (Fig. 25), apophyses anterior longer and more massive than in P. multisignata, ductus bursae moderate short, wider than in P. multisignata, antevaginal plate large, corpus bursae with small spine-like signa in the caudal part.
Distribution and biology. (Fig. 37). Central Asian - Siberian-Manchurian, subboreal. West Siberia, Altai, Kazakhstan, Central Asia (Tajikistan), Mongolia, China, south of Russian Far East (Amur region, Khabarovsk and Primorye terr.) (Chen 1982; Kononenko 1990, 2005; Kononenko et al. 1998; Kononenko & Han 2007). Meso-xerophilous species, occurs in dry, open biotopes, forest-steppe, woodsides, clearings, bushes and meadows. The flight period is from July to September. The larva and its foodplants are unknown.
Notes. The species was placed by earlier authors in the genus Parascotia Hübner, [1825] 1816 (= Boletobia Boisduval, 1840) (at present subfamily Boletobinae) and transferred to Paragona via its congener P. multisignata (Kononenko 2005).
description: Published as part of Kononenko, Vladimir S., Han, Hui-Lin, Yu, Alexej & V, Ато, 2010, A review of the Eastern Palaearctic genera Paragona Staudinger, 1892 and Paragabara Hampson, 1926 with description of two new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Aventiinae, Hypeninae), pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 2679 on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199269