Parvispinia parvispina ( Tschetverikov, 1904 ) Babics & Kononenko & Saldaitis, 2012

Babics, J., Kononenko, V. S. & Saldaitis, A., 2012, New genus and three new species of the subfamily Xyleninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Zootaxa 3509, pp. 55-68 : 58

Parvispinia parvispina ( Tschetverikov, 1904) , comb. n.

( Figs. 3, 4, 17, 24, 25)

(?) Ammoconia parvispina Tschetverikov, 1904 , Revue Russe d ' Entomologie. 4: 78. Type locality: [ Russia, Tuva Autonomic Republic, W Sayan, Khemchic river ] Sojotorum, Kemtchik. Lectotype presently designated, male, ZI, St-Petersburg.

References: Corti & Draudt 1931 –1938: 88, Pl. 12l ( Atrachea ); Varga 1982: 214, Pl. 4: 7, (male genitalia) ( Atrachea ); Poole 1989: 139 ( Atrachea ); Chen, Wang & Lin, 1991: 156, Pl. 8:1 ( Atrachea ); Chen 1999: 634, Pl. 29:2 ( Atrachea ); Kononenko 2005: 154 ( Atrachea ).

Material examined. Lectotype (designated herein) male, [ Russia, Tuva Autonomic Republic ] Kemchik, Uryanhai W, 13.viii.02, ORIG ( ZISP) . Paralectotype: 1 male, Siberia, Eniseji, viii.1903, ex coll. Meinghardt. Other material examined: 1 male, 1 female, W Mongolia, Kemchik, Chul River , 13–15.viii.1903, leg. Grum-Grzhimailo 1 male Minusinsk, Museum garden, 15.ix.[?], leg. V. Kozhanchikov ; 1 male, vic. Minusinsk , 30.vii.1920, ex larva, leg. A. Gerasimov ; 3 males, 1 female, vic. Minusinsk , 9–15.ix.1925 , 1 female, 11.viii.1927; 15 males, 5 females, 16.viii.–4.ix.1928; 4 males, 1 female, 3–6.viii.1929; 1 male, 1 female, 18–29.viii.1930; 1 female, 31.viii.1934, all leg V. Kozhanchikov ; 2 males; Irkutsk , 7.viii.1953, leg. L. Vorzheva ; 1 male, [ China] north slope Nan Shan , ex larva, leg. Grum-Grzhimailo ; 1 male, Irkutsk, Gorkova Street , 12.viii.1971, leg. Bundel ; 2 males, Tyva, Kyzyl , 18.viii.1977, leg. P. Bogdanov (ex coll. A. V. Nekrasov) ; 1 male, Amur reg., Blagoveschensk , 28.viii.1983, leg. [?] (ex coll. A. V. Nekrasov) ; 1 male, Buryatskaya Autonomic Republic, Kabanskyi reg., Tankhoi , 15.ix.1976, leg. R. Ionov (ex coll. A. V. Nekrasov), Prep. Nekrasov 1223 (all ZISP); I male , 1 female, Irkutsk, 11–12, 17.viii.1968, leg. O.Sotavalta ( ZMHU) ; 1 male, 1 female, Russia, Transbailkalia, Borzja , genit. Prep. 7268LR, 7269LR ; 1 male, Russia, Siberia, Irkutsk Reg , 104°11'E, 52°05'N, leg. Zouhar (coll. GB) .

Diagnosis. The imago of A. parvispina ( Figs. 3, 4) can be recognized from the related species by grey with reddish ting wing colour, clearly expressed arched antemedial line, large orbicular and reniform and presence of the row of thin blackish streaks in submedial field. In male genitalia ( Fig. 17) it differs by narrower valva, shorter harpe and smaller, hardly traceable digitus; aedeagus with tubular vesica, without diverticula with fine scobination in distal part. The female genitalia ( Fig. 24, 25) differ by shallow cup-like antrum and shape of appendix bursae with sclerotised wrinkled cervix in joining with ductus bursae.

Distribution and Bionomics. Central Asian. Russia, South Siberia (Tuva, W and E Sayan, Irkutsk reg., Transbaikalia, south of Amur reg., Blagoveschensk); Mongolia, North and West China. Xerothermic species, occurs in dry steppe and forest-steppe biotopes.

Notes. The original description of Ammoconia parvispina was published in Latin and German. The typelocality and flight period in the Latin part of the description are stated as “Hab. In terra Sojotorum ad flumen Kemtchik. Volat ad finem mensis Augusti” Two males referred as examined material in German part of the description: “ 2 males Flusse Kemtschik (Zwischen den Gebirgen Sajan und Tannu-Ola gefangen. Zweite Halfte August (P.Sushkin).” One of them is designated above as the lectotype. The type-locality in current interpretation is Russia, Tuva Autonomic Republic, Khemchik river. Since Corti & Draudt (1931 –1938) the species has been treated in the genus Atrachea , while Kononenko (2001, 2005) noted its uncertain position.