Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of the Russian Caucasus with the description of a new species

Roman V Yakovlev; Alexander N Poltavsky; Elena V Ilyina; Valeriy I Shchurov; Thomas J Witt

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4044.2.5

Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of the Russian Caucasus with the description of a new species

Zootaxa. 2015 Nov 18;4044(2):270-88. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.2.5.

Authors

Roman V Yakovlev¹, Alexander N Poltavsky², Elena V Ilyina³, Valeriy I Shchurov⁴, Thomas J Witt⁵

Affiliations

¹ Altai State University, South Siberian Botanical garden, Lenina 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.; Email: cossus_cossus@mail.ru.
² Botanical Garden, Southern federal University, Botanicheskij spusk 7, Rostov-on-Don, 344041, Russia; Email: unknown.
³ Daghestan Sci. Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhieva 45, Makhachkala, Daghestan Republic, Russia; Email: unknown.
⁴ The Federal Budget Institution «Russian Centre of Forest Health» branch «Centre of Forest Health of Krasnodar Region», Odesskiy pr-d 4, 350080, Krasnodar, Russia; Email: czl23@yandex.ru.
⁵ Museum Witt, Tengstrasse 33, D-80796, Munich, Germany.; Email: thomas@witt-thomas.com.

PMID: 26624712
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.2.5

Abstract

An annotated list of the Cossidae of the Russian portion of the Caucasus including 20 species from 11 genera and two subfamilies is presented for the first time. A new species Cryptoholcocerus daghestanica sp. nov. is also described.

MeSH terms

Animals
Ecosystem
Female
Male
Moths / anatomy & histology*
Moths / classification*
Russia