Dieida ledereri Staudinger, 1871

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Dieida ledereri Staudinger, 1871

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Stygia ledereri Staudinger, 1871a , Cat. Lep. Eur. Faun. 1: 61.

LT: Külek im Taurus [ Turkey]. Type material (holotype) in MHUB .

Dieida persa Strand in Stichel, 1911, syn. n.

Dieida persa Strand in Stichel, 1911, Zeitschr. Wiss. Ins.-Biol. 7 (5/6): 163.

LT: Prov. Arrak [ Iran]. Type material (syntypes) in MHUB, probably lost .

Material examined. HMIM: Esfahân Prov.: 1 ♀, Semirom , Dolat Gharin, N 31˚32΄22.1˝, E 51˚37΄26.8˝, 2750 m, 13.v.2007, leg. Gilâsiân.

Diagnosis. In both Dieida persa and D. ledereri the thorax, abdomen and wings are covered with orange scales. Both species are also known only by females. As revealed in this study, no external and morphological differences were observed between the populations from Turkey, Iran and Transcaucasia. The type of D. ledereri was also compared with non-type specimens of D. persa collected in Iran and no differences were found. Therefore, D. persa is being considered as junior synonym of D. ledereri .

Distribution. Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Azerbaijan ( Staudinger 1879a; Staudinger & Rebel 1901; Schoorl 1990; Yakovlev 2009a , 2010, 2011a; Yakovlev & Pljustch 2014; Yakovlev et al. 2015a).

Distribution in Iran. Arak (Markazi Province) and Semirom (Esfahan Province) ( Yakovlev 2009a , 2011a) ( Fig. 35E ).

Figures

FIGURE 22. Dieida ledereri Staudinger, female (scale bar= 10.0 mm).

FIGURE 35. Distribution of Cossidae species in Iran. A) Phragmataecia albida Erschoff. B) Phragmataecia castanea (Hübner). C) Phragmataecia turkmenbashi Yakovlev. E) Zeuzera pyrina (Linnaeus). D) Dieida ledereri (Staudinger).