Ctenoceratoda khorgossi (Alpheraky, 1882)

Varga, Zoltán, Gyulai, Péter, Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2018, Review Of The Species Groups Of The Genus Ctenoceratoda Varga, 1992 With Description Of Four New Species And A New Subspecies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64 (1), pp. 51-74 : 54

The khorgossi -group

Diagnosis – This species-group is most similar in its external and genital characters to the sukharevae -group. They are medium-sized moths with robust body, very long and strongly bipectinated male antennae and relatively narrow triangular, apically acute forewings with brownish-bluish-ochreous or silvery grey variegated colouration. Orbicular and reniform stigmata conspicuous, reniform stigma often with acute “pipe-shaped” extension in basal direction, orbicular stigma narrow and oblique. Male brush organ reduced.

In the male genitalia, the uncus is relatively short, triangular, pointed apically, the cucullus is rounded triangular or slightly inflated with narrow neck and regular corona; the ampulla is mostly elongate, acute or obtuse. In male vesica the stripe of fasciculate cornuti and in females the sausage-shaped appendix bursae are relatively short.

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Ctenoceratoda khorgossi (Alphéraky, 1882, Mamestra ), Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 17: 65, pl. 2, fig. 49. Type-locality: [ China, Xinjiang] Kuldja district; Khorgoss;

Ctenoceratoda argyrea Varga, 1992 , Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 38 (1-2): 98, pl. 2, figs 9–10, gen. figs 5–10, 16–17.Type-locality: Mongolia, Govi Altai aimak, Govi Altai Mts;

Ctenoceratoda persephone sp. n.

Ctenoceratoda scotosparsa sp. n.

Bionomics and distribution – One species of the group is widely distributed in Central Asia, the range of three others seems to be confined to western Mongolia with some phenological and vertical differentiation.