Palaeagrotis inops Lederer 1853
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Gyulai, Péter
name: Behounek, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Palaeagrotis
Palaeagrotis inops

description: Palaeagrotis inops (Lederer, 1853)
(Figs 1–4, 11–13, 19)
Hadena inops Lederer, 1853, Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-botanischen Vereins in Wien 3: 371, pl. 4, fig. 2 (Type locality: [Eastern Kazakhstan, West Altai], "Vorbergen des Altai zwischen Ust-Kamenogorsk und Ust-Buhtarminsk am Irtisch").
Type material examined. Lectotype (hereby designated): male (Figs 1, 11), handwritten white label “Altai” / handwritten yellowish label “ Inops m.” / printed pink label “Origin.” (coll. NKMB). Slide 12193 NKMB Behounek; paralectotype: female, printed pink label “Origin.” / printed pink label “Coll. Led.” / printed white label “ex coll. Staudinger 2/2” (coll. NKMB). Slide 121931 NKMB Behounek.
Other material examined. KAZAKHSTAN: 1 male, 18–19.vii.2011, E Kazakhstan, E Kazakhstan area, Zaisan distr., Saur Mts, 24 km S Zaisan, upper stream Bolshoi Zhemenei river, h= 1650 m, 47º14’ N; 84º56’ E, Titov S.V. leg. (coll. AVB); 2 males, 02– 03.10.2010, SE Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata area, 3 km SE Arkharly Pass, h= 1070 m, 44°13'16.33'' N, 77°43'53.64'' E, Taranov B.T. & Egorov P.V. leg. (coll. AVB). KYRGYZSTAN: 1 male, S Kirgisia, Alai range, Maidantau, 1700 m, 30 km S Kyzil Kija, 4.vii.1998, leg. I. Pljutsch (coll. PGM); 1 male, Kirgisia, Kirgiz range, Orusai, 2400 m, 1–5.ix.1993, leg.: Toropov (coll. PGM). CHINA, XINJIANG: 1 male, Aksu, ex coll. Tancré / Coll. L. Osthelder (coll. ZSM); 1 female, Pseudohad. arvicola, Aksu (coll. ZSM); 1 male, China, Boro Horo Shan, 2000 m, Balguntay, 13.vii.1996, (coll. PGM). MONGOLIA: 1 male, Chovd [Khovd] aimak, 6 km SW from Chovd, 25–28.vii.1986, leg. Z. Varga (coll. ZSM); 1 male, Govi Altay aimak, Mts Adz Bogd, valley of Ih-gol, 2100 m, 95º00' E, 44º45' N, 3–4.viii.1988, leg. Peregovits & Varga (coll. ZSM); 1 male, 1 female, Ömnögobi [Ömnögovi] aimak, Erdene uul, 10 km W of Noyon sum, 24–25.viii.1997, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai (coll. PGM, ZSM); 1 female, 18.vii.2010, W Mongolia, Govi-Altai aimak, 30 km NW of Tajshir, Dzabhan river valley, h= 1500 m, 46º53' N, 96º05' E, Yakovlev R.V. & Guskova E.V. leg. (coll. AVB); 1 male, 1 female, 14.0 7.2007, W Mongolia, Hovd aimak, Bulgan-gol basin, Dod-Naryjn-Gol Valley, h= 1500–1700 m, meadow in a valley of the river near Salix and Populus thrickets, E.V. Guskova & R.V. Yakovlev leg. (coll. AVB); 1 female, 0 4.0 7.2007, W Mongolia, Hovd aimak, Erdene-Buren somon, h = 1250 m, sandy semidesert, E.V. Guskova & R.V. Yakovlev leg. (coll. AVB); 1 female, 11.0 7.2009, SW Mongolia, Gobi-Altai aimak, Mongolian Altai Mts, S slope, Mogoijn-Gol Valley, 1800 m, Yakovlev R.V. & Guskova E.V. leg. (coll. AVB); 1 male, Chovd [Khovd] aimak 6 km SW of Chovd 25–28.vii.1986, leg. P. Gyulai (coll. PGM); 1 male, Ömnögobi [Ömnögovi] aimak, Tost uul, Dund uuzmin pass 39 km W of Gurban-Tes sum 25–26.viii.1997, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai (coll. PGM); 1 male, same data (coll. GBG); 1 male, Övörkhangai aimak, Öshgögiin nuruu, Balbagiin khöndii, 30 km N of Baruun-Bayan Ulaan sum, 05–06.ix.1997, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai (coll. PGM). RUSSIA: 10 males, 6 females, 12–21.viii.2009, Altai Republic, Ulagan district, Aktash village, bottom of southern steppe stony slope, h= 1400 m, by light-trap. 50º19' N, 87º35' E. Volynkin A.V. leg. (coll. AVB).
Slides ZSM 4418, ZSM 4419 Volynkin, 710, 888, 1845, 4013, 4019, 4067, 4075 Gyulai (males), ZSM 4417, ZSM 4420 Volynkin (females).
Diagnosis. Wingspan 34–44 mm. An externally variable species, its ground colour varies from pale reddish brown to ochreous and greenish brown. P. inops is closely related to P. adrienneae sp. n. Without dissection, the two species can be separated by the shape and ground colour of forewing: P. inops has somewhat broader forewings with less reddish colouration. The differences in the male and female genitalia are given under the diagnosis of P. adrienneae sp. n.
Distribution and bionomics. The species is known from Kyrgyzstan (Lehmann & Bergmann 2005), eastern and southeastern Kazakhstan (Lederer 1953), northwestern China, Xinjiang (Hampson 1907), Russian Altai (Volynkin et al. 2011; Volynkin 2012) and western and southern Mongolia (Varga 1982; Gyulai & Ronkay 1999). In Russian Altai, P. inops inhabits dry stony slopes with Spiraea, Cotoneaster, Berberis and Rosa shrubs and various Artemisia and Poaceae species.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Gyulai, Péter & Behounek, Gottfried, 2015, A review of the genus Palaeagrotis with description of a new species from South Mongolia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), pp. 113-120 in Zootaxa 3956 (1) on pages 114-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/244365