Karanasa pardesi, Tshikolovets, 2017

Tshikolovets, Vadim, 2017, New taxa and new records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Afghanistan, Zootaxa 4358 (1), pp. 107-124 : 111-112

Karanasa pardesi sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype: ♂ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Kotal-e-Andjuman , 4250 m, 16.7.[19]71, leg. Pardes, Coll. - Nr. 1515, C. Naumann ”.

Paratypes 3♂: ♂ with the following label “E-Afghanistan, Prov. Baghlan, Dar. -e-Andarab, 19.7.1971, leg. N. M. Pardes, Coll. - Nr. 1517, C. Naumann ” ; ♂ with the following label “ Afghanistan, Panjshir-Gebiet, vic. Ghendju , alt. 3000–3500 m, Ende Juli 1971, leg. N. M. Khoram, coll. Naumann ” ; ♂ with the following label “E- Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Kotal-e-Andjuman , 4250 m, 16.7.[19]71, leg. Pardes, Coll. - Nr. 1515, C. Naumann ”.

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

Description. Forewing length (from base to apex) ca. 22 mm. Forewing: ground colour of upperside brown with yellow-brown spraying in basal and discal areas; yellow bands in postdiscal area well developed and powdered with orange-brown scales; androconial patches visible; apical black ocellus pupilled white, ca. 3 mm wide, second black ocellus is blind, i. e. without white scales in the centre, diameter ca. 2 mm; underside light brown. Hindwing: all veins on upperside yellow-brown, well developed; underside brown with white-yellow lines, light brown scales, and a light suffusion of submarginal bands.

Diagnosis. The new species differs from all known species of Karanasa in the presence of yellow bands in postdiscal area and well developed veins on both wings.

Distribution. Central and eastern Afghanistan.

Etymology. The name pardesi is dedicated to N. M. Pardes, the Afghani butterfly hunter, who collected the holotype and many other rare butterflies in Afghanistan in the 1970’s.

Comment. This species was recorded and figured by S. Sakai (1981, Pl. 20, fig. 6) as Karanasa bolorica mohsenii Wyatt & Omoto , [1967].

Figures

FIGURE 8. Karanasa pardesi sp. nov., Holotype, ♂, Afghanistan, Prov. Kapisa, Kotal-e-Andjuman, 4250 m, 16.7.1971, leg. Pardes (SMNK).