Ahlbergia ferrea (Huang, Hao & Zhu, Jian-Qing 2016)
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Ordo: Lepidoptera
Familia: Lycaenidae
Genus: Ahlbergia
Name
Ahlbergia ferrea Butler – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ahlbergia ferrea Huang, Hao, 2016, Zootaxa 4114: 427-428.
Materials Examined
Material. CHINA: Liaoning Province: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (CHH), Anshan City, Mt. Qianshan, V. 2012, Q.-Y. Xu leg.; 1 ♀ (CHH), Benxi City, Dadi Park, 31.V. 2013, H.-C. Shan leg.. All specimens dissected. Identification and synonym.Johnson (1992: 103, fig. 8) illustrated the male genitalia of holotype, which can be regarded as the basis of identification for the male A. ferrea. The female genitalia illustrated by Johnson (1992: 103, fig. 9) are however somewhat misleading, being inaccurate in size of its lamella postvaginalis in proportion to the length of the ductus bursae. Matsuda & Bae (1998: 58, figs. 19–21, 25) figured the female genitalia of four specimens, which can be regarded as the basis of identification for the female ferrea. There is no doubt that A. ferrea is the only species of Ahlbergia occurring in Japan.
Description
The Chinese specimens examined in this work possess the diagnostic characters of A. ferrea as stated below. Diagnostic characters. The following combination of characters is unique for A. ferrea: 1) hindwing termen of male a little shorter and less produced at vein 3 than in other species; 2) androconial patch of male constantly wider than that of A. frivaldszkyi; 3) discal markings on hindwing underside of both sexes edged by white dashes in spaces 6–7, which are obsolete or absent in A. leei and A. frivaldszkyi; 4) lower cornutus of phallus nearly as wide as upper cornutus, markedly narrower than that of A. leei and A. tricaudata; 5) upper cornutus of phallus without large teeth along distal margin, which are well marked in A. frivaldszkyi; 6) lamella postvaginalis of female genitalia longer than in A. tricaudata, more oblong with distal margin less arched than in A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei; 7) lamella postvaginalis without deep convolutions which are well marked in A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei.
Distribution
Distribution.Japan, Korea, Russia (Amur, Khanka Mts., Sakhalin), China (Liaoning; Little Chingan Mts., Heilongjiang: Johnson 1992). Tuzov’s (2000) record from Ussuri probably derives from Omelko & Omelko’s (1995) record which is a misidentification of A. tricaudata.
Taxon Treatment
- Huang, Hao; Zhu, Jian-Qing; 2016: Ahlbergia maoweiweii sp. n. from Shaanxi, China with revisional notes on similar species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Zootaxa 4114: 427-428. doi
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