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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0A91E2E-12E7-4436-BC18-4AF2EC2351E4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049299
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/425287CC-223E-FFEF-FF0B-FB518E0921CB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Karanasa naumanni
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Karanasa naumanni sp. nov.

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4)

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 View Materials ”.

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 View FIGURE 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 View FIGURE 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.