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Issue: Vol. 4344 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.13
Page range: 189–194
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 3

On the taxonomy of the genus Acronicta (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). IV. Acronicta digna species-complex

Altai State University, Lenina str. 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia; Tomsk State University, Institute of Biology, Ecology, Soil Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia.
Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya, 1, RF-199034, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, CH-150014, China.
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

Abstract

The present paper is the fourth in a series of articles on the genus Acronicta Ochsenheimer (Volynkin et al. 2015; Volynkin 2015; Volynkin et al. 2016). In here, we revive A. metaxantha (Hampson 1909) stat. n., which was synonymized with A. digna (Butler, 1881) by Han & Kononenko (2010) to the species level, designate the neotype for Acronycta agnata Draudt, 1937 and revise the synonymy of A. digna and A. agnata.

 

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