Cryptoholcocerus Yakovlev, 2006

Yakovlev, Roman V., Pljustch, Igor G., Skrylnik, Yuriy, Pak, Oleg & Witt, Thomas J., 2015, The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park, Zootaxa 3990 (1), pp. 41-72 : 48

Genus Cryptoholcocerus Yakovlev, 2006

Yakovlev, 2006: 61, 68.

Type species: Cossus mongolicus Erschoff in Alpheraky, 1882. Designation by monotypy.

Cryptoholcocerus mongolicus (Erschoff in Alpheraky, 1882) ( Figs 20, 102 ) Cossus mongolicus Erschoff in Alpheraky, 1882: 33.

Type locality: Kouldja [NW China, Kuldzha].

Type material probably lost.

Distribution: SE Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, NW China ( Yakovlev 2006a; 2011).

Reported for Badakhshan, Barak and Sarobi ( Daniel 1964).

Habitat and biology. Flight period: July −September. Altitude: 1100−1600 m ( Daniel 1964). Material examined: male, NO Afghanistan, Badakhshan, Barak, 1600 m, 23.0 7.1957, leg. G. Ebert ( ZSSM); male, Kabul, 1800 m, 4.0 7.1963, Omoto ( ZSSM); 2 males, Badakhschan, Bela-Kuran, 2900 m, 12.0 7.1963, Omoto leg. ( ZSSM); male, Sarobi (O. Afghanistan), 1100 m, 27.0 8.1961, leg. Ebert ( ZSSM).

Figures

FIGURES 99 − 106. Distribution maps of Cossidae of Afghanistan: 99. Holcocerus gloriosa (Erschoff, 1874); 100. Holcocerus holosericeus Staudinger, 1884; 101. Deserticossus arenicolus (Staudinger, 1879); 102. Cryptoholcocerus mongolicus (Erschoff in Alpheraky, 1882); 103. Cossulus griseatellus Yakovlev, 2006; 104. Cossulus herzi (Alpheraky, 1893); 105. Cossulus intractatus (Staudinger, 1887); 106. Cossulus kabulense (Daniel, 1965).