2025/07/09 by Jaan Viidalepp, Igor Kostjuk · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Plant and animal studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change
paper · doi:10.5735/086.062.0109
openalex publication_date 2025/07/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
The ennomine genus Rhipignophos Wehrli, 1951 is redescribed, and brief diagnoses for its sixteen species are provided. Primary type specimens of Middle Asian (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) and Afghan species of Rhipignophos are illustrated, and photographs of their male and female genitalia are provided. Five new species, Rhipignophos kopetdagicus Kostjuk, Viidalepp & László (Turkmenistan), Rhipignophos naumanni Kostjuk & Viidalepp (Afghanistan), Rhipignophos eberti Kostjuk & Viidalepp (Afghanistan), Rhipignophos shachristanica Viidalepp (Tajikistan) and Rhipignophos kentauica Kostjuk (Kazakhstan) are diagnosed and described. Two subspecies of Rhipignophos tadzhikistanica Viidalepp, 1988 are elevated to species rank: Rhipignophos lateritia Viidalepp, 1988 and Rhipignophos shugnana Viidalepp, 1988.