First record of the genus <em>Shargacucullia </em>G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from the Altai Mountains

Check List 13(6): 733-738, doi: 10.15560/13.6.733

First record of the genus Shargacucullia G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from the Altai Mountains

Anton Volynkin^‡, Sergey Titov^§, Matjaž Černila^|

‡ Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia§ S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan| The Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Corresponding author: Anton Volynkin ( volynkin_a@mail.rusity )

Academic editor: Reza Zahiri

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Citation: Volynkin A, Titov S, Černila M (2017) First record of the genus Shargacucullia G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from the Altai Mountains. Check List 13(6): 733-738. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.733

Abstract

The genus Shargacucullia G. Ronkay & L. Ronkay, 1992 is recorded in Altai Mountains (eastern Kazakhstan) for the first time. Three species, S. (Verbascullia) verbasci (Linnaeus, 1758), S. (Shargacucullia) xylophana (Boursin, 1934) and S. (Shargacucullia) nekrasovi G. Ronkay, L. Ronkay & Gyulai, 2011 are reported in the Tarbagatai Ridge and West Altai Mountains. These are the north-easternmost known localities of the species. Adults, genitalia and habitats of the species are illustrated.

Keywords

Kazakhstan; Asia; new records