Scrobipalpa truncata, comb. nov.
Creators: name: BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY
name: HUEMER, PETER
name: ŠUMPICH, JAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa truncata

description: Scrobipalpa truncata (Povolný, 2002) comb. nov.
Figs 34, 92–94, 141
Euscrobipalpa truncata Povolný 2002: 74.
Scrobipalpa abstrusa Huemer & Karsholt, 2010: 113. Syn. nov.
Type material examined. Holotype of E. truncata ♂ (gen. slide Hk 5408, D. Povolný, remounted by OB) (MZH).
Material examined. 1 ♂, Russia, Altai, Ukok plateau, 2200 m, 18.vi.1995 (Bidzilya) (gen. slide 240/15, OB) (ZMKU); 1 ♀, Russia, Tuva, Kyzyl env., 7.vi.1999 (Lvovsky) (gen. slide 257/19, OB) (ZIN); 1 ♀, Russia, Tuva rep., 50°40’N 92°58’E, 750 m, L. Ubsa-Noor, shore mead./ Nanophyton-steppe, 15.vi.1995 (Jalava & Kullberg) (gen. slide 312/16, OB) (MZH); 1 ♂, Russia, S-Buryatia, 51°11-13’N, 106°10-12’E, 700 m, Hamar-Daban Mts, Murtoi river, Gusinoe Ozero vill. 6 km NW, forest steppe, 27.v.2006 (Nupponen) (gen. slide 258/16, OB); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 249/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28360); 1 ♀, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 241/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28314 [failed]); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 348/16, OB); 1 ♀, same data as for preceding but 26.v.2006 (gen. slide 308/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28313); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding (gen. slide 238/ 19♂, OB); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding but 4.vi.2006 (gen. slide 199/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28312 [failed]); 1 ♂, Russia, S-Buryatia, 50°58-59’N, 106°38-40’E, 550-600 m, Chikoi valley, Novoselenginsk vill. 10 km S, sand dunes/sand steppe, 1.vi.2006 (gen. slide 250/16, OB); 1 ♂, ditto, but 2.vi.2006 (gen. slide 338/16, OB) (Barcode TLMF Lep 28364) (all NUPP); 1 ♂, Russia, Buryatia Rep., 54°35’N 110°48’E, Barguzin valley, Maisky vill., 500 m, sandy yard, 2–3.vii.1996 (Jalava & Kullberg) (gen. slide 334/16, OB) (MZH); 1 ♂ (paratype of S. abstrusa), Orenburg district, 8 km E Novoiletzk, 9.vi.1998 (Nupponen) (gen. slide 3166, H. Hendriksen) (Barcode TLMF Lep 25594) (ZMUC). 1 ♂, Mongolia, Mongolskiy Altai, 30 km S Biger, mountain steppe, 2600 m, 25.vi.1999 (Ustjuzhanin) (gen. slide 234/15, OB) (ZMKU). 1 ♂, Kyrgyzstan, Tian-Shan occ., Mts, Tshatkal, distr. Ala-Buka, prope Terek-daj, val. fluv. Kasan-Saj, alt. 2000 m, 24–26.v.2003, lum. (Rutjan) (gen. slide 242/19, OB) (ZMKU); 3 ♂, prov. Thschuy, distr. Jalyl, 42.2218°N, 73.6865°E, 2300 m, Suusamyr valley, Kischi-Korumdu, 2.vi.2010 (Pöll) (Barcodes TLMF Lep 21753, TLMF Lep 30541, TLMF Lep 30545) (TLMF).
Molecular data. BIN: BOLD:AAW5451. The intraspecific average distance of the barcode region is 0.78% (n=11). The minimum distance to the nearest neighbour, an unidentified species of Scrobipalpa from Canada (BIN: BOLD:AAG9134), is 5.81%.
Distribution. Russia: Cheliabinsk, Orenburg and Volgograd regions (Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 114), Altai (new record), Tuva, Buryatia (new record); Kazakhstan (Povolný 2002: 7); Kyrgyzstan (new record); Mongolia (new record).
Remarks. Euscrobipalpa truncata was described from a single male collected in the Alma-Ata Nature Reserve, SE Kazakhstan. Scrobipalpa abstrusa was described from a series of both sexes collected in the Amurskii village of the Cheliabinsk district, Russia. Our examination of the remounted “unrolled” slide of the male genitalia of the holotype of S. truncata (Figs 92–94) justifies its conspecificity with the holotype of S. abstrusa and other specimens from Siberia. Hence, the following synonymy is proposed: Scrobipalpa abstrusa Huemer & Karsholt, 2010 syn. nov. of Scrobipalpa truncata (Povolný, 2002).
description: Published as part of BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY, HUEMER, PETER & ŠUMPICH, JAN, 2022, Taxonomy and faunistics of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in southern Siberia, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 5218 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5218.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7409836