A revision of the Eudarcia glaseri-species group (Lepidoptera, Meessiidae) with description of two new species from Greece and Crimea.
The Eudarcia glaseri-species group is revised. Four species are recognized, two of which are described as new: E. ignorata, sp. n. (Greece) and E. saxatilis, sp. n. (Crimea). E. abchasicum (Zagulajev, 1979) status rev., bona sp. is recalled from synonymy of E. glaseri. Re-descriptions and an identification key for all four species are given. The hitherto unknown females of E. glaseri (Petersen, 1967) and E. armatum (Gaedike, 1985) are described.
Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Lebedeva str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine.; Email: olexbid@gmail.com.
Oleksiy V
OV
Bidzilya
T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station - Nature Reserve of RAS, Kurortnoye, Pheodosia, Crimea, 298188, Russia.; Email: budashkin@ukr.ne.
Yury I
YI
Budashkin
Florusstraße 5, D 53225 Bonn; c/o Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany.; Email: tinagma@msn.com.
Reinhard
R
Gaedike
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D012426:Russia; D013045:Species Specificity