Karanasa naumanni, Tshikolovets, 2017

Tshikolovets, Vadim, 2017, New taxa and new records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Afghanistan, Zootaxa 4358 (1), pp. 107-124 : 109

Karanasa naumanni sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype: ♂ with the following label “O-Afghanistan, Prv. Kunar-Nuristan, ob. Lindai Sin-Tal , vic. Barg-e Matal, Dándizenor mts., 3800 m, 14.07.1970, leg. Naumann, Coll Nr ZMK 94 ”.

Paratypes ♂, ♀: ♂ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Dar.-e-Pandjshir, Parian , 9.8.1972, leg. Pardes, Coll . Nr. 1539, C. Naumann ”; ♀ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Dar.-e- Pandjshir, Parian , 9.8.1972, leg. Pardes, Coll. Nr. 1539, C. Naumann ”.

The holotype and the paratypes are deposited in the collection of SMNK.

Description. Forewing length (from base to apex) 26 mm. Forewing: ground colour of upperside light brown; orange-yellow-brown band in postdiscal area developed; apical black ocellus pupilled white ca. 4.5 mm wide, second black ocellus of diameter 1.5 mm. Underside of forewings orange-yellow-brown similar to band on upperside; apical black ocellus similar to upperside but yellow ringed; second black ocellus about 1 mm wide on right wing and reduced in left. Hindwing: on upperside orange-yellow-brown band in postdiscal area reduced; underside of hindwings as shown in Fig. 3 .

Diagnosis. New species differs from K. pamira titan and K. pamira biocellata in the reduced orange-yellowbrown bands on upperside of hindwings; from K. haslundi in the wide and monotonous orange-yellow-brown bands on upperside of forewings. Sympatric with both K. pamira and K. haslundi ( Fig. 5 ).

Distribution. Extreme south-western part of Hindukush Mountains and Koh-i-Baba Mountains.

Etymology. The name naumanni is dedicated to the late Prof. Dr. Clas Naumann, a well-known lepidopterologist from the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn who first collected this new species in 1970.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Karanasa naumanni sp. nov., Holotype, ♂, Afghanistan, Prv. Kunar-Nuristan, ob. Lindai Sin-Tal, vic. Barg-e Matal,Dándizenor mts., 3800 m, 14.07.1970, leg. Naumann (SMNK).

FIGURE 5. Karanasa spp. 5.1. K. naumanni sp. nov., Paratype, ♂, Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Dar.-e-Pandjshir, Parian, 9.8.1972, leg. Pardes (SMNK); 5.2. K. haslundi ♂, Afghanistan, Maidan, Kotal-e-Unai, 3000 m, 25.6.1970, leg. Nauman (SMNK); 5.3. K. pamira titan ♂, Afghanistan, Darr.-e.-Pandshir, vic. Ghendju, Dar.-e-Gendju, 3000 m, 27.7.1972, leg. N. M. Khoram (SMNK); 5.4. K.haslundi ♂, Afghanistan, Prov.Ghor, Kotal-e-Narges, W-Ste., D.-e-Godar, ca.3200 m,9.7.1976, leg. C. Naumann (SMNK).