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Description of a new Middle Eastern Lemonia species, comments on the Lemonia philopalus complex and Lemonia syriensis (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae: Lemoniinae)

Alexey M. ProzorovUniversity of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, BP 1805 Bamako, MaliTatiana A. ProzorovaKarl Marx st. 41-14, 432001 Ulyanovsk, RussiaJulia S. VolkovaUlyanovsk State University, Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya str. 1, 432063, Ulyanovsk, RussiaRoman V. YakovlevAltai State University, Lenina pr. 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russia & Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia & Paleo Data Lab., Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Kutateladze str. 7/3, 630090 Novosibirsk, RussiaAidas SaldaitisNature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, L-08412 Vilnius, LithuaniaA. S. OrtizDepartamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, University of Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, SpainGiovanni BiancoSenckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute (SBiK-F), Georg-Voigt-Str. 14, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyTom SchneiderBereshit 9, 4720179 Ramat HaSharon, IsraelEdita E. RevayUniversity of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, BP 1805 Bamako, MaliGünter C. MüllerUniversity of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, BP 1805 Bamako, Mali & Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel

2022en

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Abstract

The Algerian-Tunisian Lemonia philopalus (Donzel, 1842) is reviewed and redescribed. The status of the Moroccan population named Lemonia philopalus rungsi Rougeot 1971 (type locality: Morocco, Merchouch) is revised, it is taken from the synonymy to the Iberian population and left as a subspecies of L. philopalus until the genetic relationship between the Moroccan and the Algerian-Tunisien populations is studied. The Iberian population is raised to a specific level as Lemonia vazquezi Oberthür, 1916 bona sp. (type locality: Spain, Madrid, Rivas-Vaciamadrid), it has a 2.13% genetic distance from the Moroccan L. philopalus rungsi. A lectotype for L. vazquezi is designated from the Natural History Museum (London, UK). The new Middle Eastern Lemonia levantina sp. n. is described (type locality: Jordan, Rift Valley, 40 km N of Aqaba, sands NW Rahma). The new species is externally similar to L. philopalus, L. philopalus rungsi, and L. vazquezi but has a 4.86% genetic distance from the Moroccan population and 5.55% from the Iberian one. The Levantine species is compared with Lemonia syriensis Daniel, 1953 because the two are sympatric and show external similarities. The ecology, phenology, and distribution of the species are discussed.

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DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.57.8

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