{"title":"Taxonomic notes on Palearctic taxa of Galacticidae, a little-known family of Lepidoptera (Galacticoidea)","authors":"W. Mey","doi":"10.3897/nl.45.78574","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Galacticidae is a poorly known family in the Palearctic Region. The range of the family covers the Mediterranean Zone of North Africa, as well as Western Asia, Eastern Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Palaearctic. The included taxa are summarised in a checklist. Available type material was examined and redescriptions of some species are provided. Two genera are recognised and diagnosed: Homadaula Lower, 1899 with four species and Zarcinia Chrétien, 1915 with five species. BahrlutiaAmsel 1935, syn. nov. is a junior synonym of Zarcinia and Galactica Walsingham, 1911 syn. nov., the name bearing type genus of the family, proves to be a junior synonym of Homadaula. The male and female genitalia are the principal characters for defining genera and diagnosing species in this family. The hitherto unknown genitalia of seven species are illustrated for the first time. Zarcinia stshetkinisp. nov. is described from Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Not all taxonomic problems could be solved. Three species remain as incertae sedis.","PeriodicalId":55983,"journal":{"name":"Nota Lepidopterologica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nota Lepidopterologica","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.45.78574","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENTOMOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Galacticidae is a poorly known family in the Palearctic Region. The range of the family covers the Mediterranean Zone of North Africa, as well as Western Asia, Eastern Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Palaearctic. The included taxa are summarised in a checklist. Available type material was examined and redescriptions of some species are provided. Two genera are recognised and diagnosed: Homadaula Lower, 1899 with four species and Zarcinia Chrétien, 1915 with five species. BahrlutiaAmsel 1935, syn. nov. is a junior synonym of Zarcinia and Galactica Walsingham, 1911 syn. nov., the name bearing type genus of the family, proves to be a junior synonym of Homadaula. The male and female genitalia are the principal characters for defining genera and diagnosing species in this family. The hitherto unknown genitalia of seven species are illustrated for the first time. Zarcinia stshetkinisp. nov. is described from Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Not all taxonomic problems could be solved. Three species remain as incertae sedis.
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Nota Lepidopterologica is the scientific, peer-reviewed journal of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL). It publishes original contributions to the study of mainly but not exclusively Palaearctic Lepidoptera, especially on taxonomy, morphology/anatomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, ecology, behaviour, and conservation, but also on any other aspects of lepidopterology.
All articles are published in English, with the possibility of having the summary written in other languages. All submitted manuscripts are subject to peer-review by the leading specialists for the respective topic. The journal is published in open access high-resolution PDF, semantically enriched HTML and machine-readable XML versions.
All papers can be freely copied, downloaded, printed and distributed at no charge. Authors and readers are thus encouraged to post the pdf files of published papers on homepages or elsewhere to expedite distribution. Publication is free for the SEL members and there is no charge for color.
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