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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 3: 12 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.8
Page range: 285-297
Abstract views: 396
PDF downloaded: 23

On the genus Elegia Ragonot, 1887 (Pyralidae: Phycitinae: Phycitini) from Iran with description of Elegia kharazii sp. nov.

Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran.
Račianska 61, SK-83102 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Elegia new record new species new synonymy Pyralidae

Abstract

Elegia species deposited in the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM) were examined and three species were identified. Elegia kharazii sp. nov. is described based on a single male and two females collected in Gilan and Golestan Provinces, Iran and compared with the externally similar European species E. similella (Zincken, 1818). Elegia saecula Kemal, Kýzýldað & Koçak, 2020 (syn. nov.) is considered as a junior synonym of Elegia iozona (Meyrick, 1937). Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot, 1887, collected in the north-west Iran (East Azarbaijan Province), is a new species for the fauna of Iran.

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