https://shilap.org/revista/issue/feed SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 2025-07-01T10:14:24+02:00 Dr. Antonio Vives avives1954@outlook.es Open Journal Systems <p><strong>SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología</strong> is an international journal which has been published by the Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterología since 1973. It includes empirical and theoretical research in all aspects of Lepidopterology (Systematic, Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Morphology, Bionomics, Ecology, Faunistics and Zoogeography, also bibliographical papers or those on the history of Lepidopterology, as well as book reviews on the topics mentioned) from all over the world with special emphasis of study of Conservation Biology. promoting research, development and innovation (R+D+I).</p> https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1047 Nomenclatorial novelties of the genus Leucania Ochsenheimer, 1816 that occur in Central America (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) 2025-07-01T10:14:24+02:00 Morton S. Adams mortonsadams@gmail.com Timothy L. McCabe timothy.mccabe@nysed.gov <p>We treat five species of <em>Leucania</em> Ochsenheimer, 1816 originally described in <em>Cirphis</em> Walker, [1865, p. 623] by Draudt (1924), whose name-bearing types were destroyed in the bombing during World War II. These species are <em>Cirphis biforis</em> Draudt, 1924, <em>C. macellaria</em> Draudt, 1924, <em>C. clara</em> Draudt, 1924, <em>C. opalisans</em> Draudt, 1924, and <em>C. carnea</em> Draudt, 1924. We make the latter three species objective synonyms of <em>Leucania multipunctata</em> Druce, 1889. A neotype is designated for <em>Cirphis biforis</em> Draudt, 1924 and its original description is provided. <em>Cirphis macellaria</em> is recognized as a subjective synonym of <em>L. clarescens</em> Möschler, 1890. A total of eleven synonyms are proposed: four Draudt objective synonyms and seven additional synonymies for Central American <em>Leucania</em> species. Lectotypes are designated for <em>Cirphis pyrastis</em> Hampson, 1905 and <em>C. seteci</em> Dyar, 1914. Illustrations of the imago, valvae, everted endophallus, and bursa copulatrix are provided for <em>L. biforis</em> (Draudt, 1924), <em>L. multipunctata</em> Druce, 1889, <em>L. pyrastis</em> (Hampson, 1905), and <em>L. sarcistis</em> (Hampson, 1905). Photographs of the types of <em>L. extenuata</em> Guenée, 1852 and <em>L. infatuans</em> are provides. New character states of the forewing and genitalia are described. A list of nomenclatorial changes is provided.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1049 First records of Ancylosis nubeculella (Ragonot, 1887) from mainland Spain and continental Europe (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae) 2025-07-01T10:14:23+02:00 Javier Gastón fjgaston@yahoo.es David Grundy dgcountryside@btinternet.com Stephen Knapp forest28@hotmail.co.uk <p>First records of <em>Ancylosis nubeculella</em> (Ragonot, 1887) from mainland Spain and continental Europe (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae) are provided, along with images of the moth as live and set specimens, plus male and female genitalia.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Gastón, David Grundy, Stephen Knapp https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1050 Sympatric and partially synchronic populations of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 are well known; how common are hybrids? (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) 2025-07-01T10:14:22+02:00 Peter J. C. Russell peterjcrussell82@yahoo.com <p>Locations where <em>Melitaea phoebe</em> ([Denis &amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and <em>M. ornata</em> Christoph, 1893 are sympatric and at least partially synchronic, across 10 countries, are listed. Comments are made on specimens that are known hybrids and others which have a hybrid appearance, having some characters associated with both species. Albania (nine) and Spain (six) currently record the most locations where both species occur together. Difficulties in species identification of some individual specimens are believed to be the result of hybridisation between these two species.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Peter J. C. Russell https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1051 A preliminary checklist of Papilionoidea fauna of Tehsil Bani, Jammu and Kashmir, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera) 2025-07-01T10:14:20+02:00 Tasli Sheikh sheikhtass@gmail.com Wasim Sajad Malik waseemmalik48111@gmail.com Sat Paul Pakhru satpaulpakhru@gmail.com Muhammad Asghar Hassan kakojan112@gmail.com <p>An examination of Papilionoidea diversity was conducted in Tehsil Bani including newly established Bani Wildlife Sanctuary over five and a half years, spanning from March 2014 to September 2019. This study revealed a diverse species fauna within this data deficient Tehsil and wildlife sanctuary. A five- and half-year study revealed the occurrence of 219 species across six families that includes 26 species listed in the wildlife conservation status in India as per WLP, Act 1972 (Amendment 2022). These species were documented on 40 host plant families and more than 73 species. The majority of these were documented on host plant families, Fabaceae (25) and Poaceae (19 species) being the most prevalent, followed by Malvaceae (9), Rutaceae (8), Acanthaceae (7), Rhamnaceae (6), Brassicaceae (5), Cannabaceae (5), and Apocynaceae (5), and the additional 31 families hosting less than five species. However, information on host plants is available for 140 species (64%), but 79 species (36 %) were recorded without host plant information from Jammu and Kashmir. In addition to the host plant data, a complete bibliographic reference representing the previously published literature on the Papilionoidea fauna of Jammu and Kashmir has also been incorporated to enhance the comprehensiveness of the checklist.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Tasli Sheikh, Wasim Sajad Malik, Sat Paul Pakhru, Muhammad Asghar Hassan https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1052 A phylogenetically isolated and endemic Geometridae discovered from montane forests in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae) 2025-07-01T10:14:19+02:00 Pasi Sihvonen pasi.sihvonen@helsinki.fi Peder Skou pederskou1@gmail.com Per Falck per.falck@live.dk Leidys Murillo-Ramos leidys.murillo@unisucre.edu.co Elina Laiho elina.laiho@helsinki.fi Max Söderholm max.salvador@helsinki.fi Hermann Staude staudehermann@gmail.com Mikael Englund mikael.englund@helsinki.fi <p>The Lepidoptera fauna of Europe is among the best studied in the world, and new species are only rarely discovered that do not fit in the existing classification. We present an unknown Geometridae from the Canary Islands (Spain), which, according to the multi-gene molecular phylogeny and morphology, represents a phylogenetically isolated lineage and does not fit into any known Geometridae genus or tribe. Using an integrative approach, we classify it in the subfamily Larentiinae, in a lineage that is included in the Larentiini complex of tribes. The new taxon, named <em>Atlanticola mystica</em> Sihvonen, Skou &amp; Falck (new genus, new species) is an island endemic, occurring in Tenerife only and it is restricted to the montane forests above 500 m AMSL. We also illustrate an unrelated <em>Herbulotina grandis</em> (Prout, 1914) for comparison, which has a similar wing pattern, but is structurally different, and it is transferred here from Larentiini to the Xanthorhoini complex of tribes, supporting its original systematic position (original classification revived).</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Pasi Sihvonen, Peder Skou, Per Falck, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Elina Laiho, Max Söderholm, Hermann Staude, Mikael Englund https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1053 On the eastern boundary of the distribution of Zygaena ephialtes (Linnaeus, 1767) (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae) 2025-07-01T10:14:17+02:00 Konstantin A. Efetov shysh1981@mail.ru Svyatoslav A. Knyazev konungomsk@yandex.ru Gerhard M. Tarmann g.tarmann@tiroler-landesmuseen.at <p>In the contemporary maps of the distribution of <em>Zygaena ephialtes</em> (Linnaeus, 1767) there is a large gap between the Ural Mountains and points in the surroundings of Omsk in western Siberia (to the East of Omsk). Our investigation of the historical material collected by S. M. Tshugunov and now deposited in the Omsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin shows that the determination of specimens of “Zygaena ephialtes” from the surroundings of Omsk are based on misidentifications of <em>Zygaena cynarae</em> (Esper, 1789) and <em>Zygaena centaureae</em> Fischer von Waldheim, 1832.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Konstantin A. Efetov, Svyatoslav A. Knyazev, Gerhard M. Tarmann https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1055 Preliminary data on the family Crambidae in the province of Cordoba (Spain) (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) 2025-07-01T10:14:15+02:00 Gines Gomariz gingomariz@gmail.com <p>A list of species of the family Crambidae recorded in the province of Cordoba (Spain) by means of surveys carried out since 1981 is presented. The total list comprises 72 species, which constitutes slightly less than one third of the Iberian Crambidae. The great majority are new records for this province and six of them for Andalusia. A chorological analysis of all the species recorded shows the predominance of Asian-Mediterranean species and the existence of three Iberian endemism’s.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Gines Gomariz https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1054 Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758) and Pontia edusa (Fabricius, [1777] in Tajikistan: one or two species? (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) 2025-07-01T10:14:16+02:00 Abdulaziz M. Davlatov abdulaziz19@mail.ru Vladimir A. Lukhtanov lukhtanov@mail.ru <p>DNA barcoding of <em>Pontia</em> Fabricius, 1807 species from Tajikistan has shown that only <em>Pontia edusa</em> (Fabricius, [1777], which was previously considered <em>Pontia daplidice</em> (Linnaeus, 1758), is found throughout the country. In fact, these are the only finds of this species in Central Asia, and these data will improve our understanding about distribution of<em> Pontia edusa</em>, and in the future will help to form an overall picture of the distribution of both taxa. <em>Pontia edusa</em> is also reported for the first time for central Iran. Morphological analysis did not reveal significant features in the structure of the genitalia that could distinguish between<em> P. edusa</em> and<em> P. daplidice</em>.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Abdulaziz M. Davlatov, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1064 Parochromolopis psittacanthus Heppner, 1980 new record in México (Lepidoptera: Epermeniidae) 2025-07-01T10:13:12+02:00 Héctor Rubén Iruegas-Buentello hrbuen@gmail.com Héctor Flores-Martínez hector.fm@tlajomulco.tecnm.mx Norma Alejandra Mancilla-Margalli a.m.margalli@hotmail.com Irma Guadalupe López-Muraira lopezmuraira@hotmail.com <p><em>Parochromolopis psittacanthus</em> Heppner, on inflorescences of the mistletoe <em>Psittacanthus calyculatus</em> (DC.) G. Don, of the family Loranthaceae, is recorded for the first time for Mexico. This species was originally described by Heppner (1980) for Costa Rica and on the same plant species.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1056 Species diversity of Noctuidae in Algeria: a review of the fauna (Insecta: Lepidoptera) 2025-07-01T10:14:14+02:00 Adjal Izdihar izdihar.adjal@univ-biskra.dz Merabti Ibrahim Ibrahim.merabti@univ-biskra.dz Moussi Abdelhamid moussi.ah@univ-biskra.dz Lebouz Ismahane ismahane.lebbouz@univ-biskra.dz Balázs Benedek benedekia@gmail.com Willy De Prins willy.deprins@gmail.com <p>The objective of this study is to draw up an initial inventory of the diversity of the species of the Noctuidae family in Algeria. The large area of the country offers a variety of bioclimatic stages ranging from semi-humid to Saharan biotopes. This review is the first national list of the most studied species, many of which are known for their negative impact on agricultural crops. Based on a compilation of more than 25 publications since 1876, this study highlights the most representative genera and species of the fauna of Noctuidae in Algeria.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Adjal Izdihar, Merabti Ibrahim, Moussi Abdelhamid, Lebouz Ismahane, Balázs Benedek, Willy De Prins https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1057 Argyresthia cedrusella Falck, sp. nov. from the Canary Islands, Spain (Lepidoptera: Argyresthiidae) 2025-07-01T10:14:13+02:00 Per Falck per.falck@live.dk <p><em>Argyresthia cedrusella</em> Falck, sp. nov. is described from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is compared with its morphological close relative, <em>A. chrysidella</em> Peyerimhoff, 1877. Photographs of the adults and the genitalia of both species are provided. The new species is barcoded.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Per Falck https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1058 Description of a new species of genus Coleophora Hübner,1822 in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France, Coleophora davidiella Gastón, Vives & Ortiz, sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) 2025-07-01T10:14:11+02:00 Javier Gastón fjgaston@yahoo.es Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es Antonio Ortiz aortiz@um.es <p><em>Coleophora davidiella</em> Gastón, Vives &amp; Ortiz, sp. nov. from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France described. Differential characters are presented with their closest species <em>C. valesianella</em> Zeller, 1849 and <em>C. berlandella</em> Toll, 1956; the differences refer to the external appearance, internal genitalia and 5’ fragments of the barcode of the mitochondrial COI gene with a single BIN.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Gastón, Antonio Vives Moreno, Antonio Ortiz https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1059 Phylogeography and genetic relationship within Erebia neriene (Böber, 1890) in eastern Asia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) 2025-07-01T10:14:10+02:00 Hisato Nagaoka beniya583@jcom.zaq.ne.jp Xiaoshuan Bai baixs2007@aliyun.com Dmitry Goshko dmitriy.goshko@gmail.com Batzorig Baljinnyam ecotripmongolia@yahoo.co.jp Toshiaki Yamamoto tyamamoto@nvlu.ac.jp Kaneaki Edo edo@mext.go.jp Shigeru Kitanishi kitanishi@oita-u.ac.jp <p>Little is known about the genetic relationships within <em>Erebia neriene</em> (Böber, 1890) complexes inhabiting areas outside the Japanese Archipelago. In this study, we investigated genetic variations in <em>E. neriene</em> individuals collected from eastern Asia using mitochondrial sequences to reveal the phylogeny and genetic relationships among <em>E. neriene</em> complexes inhabiting areas outside the Japanese Archipelago. This study revealed greater genetic differentiation and a clear genetic structure among <em>E. neriene neriene</em> and <em>E. neriene scoparia</em> (Butler, 1882) populations. This is the first population genetics study of these subspecies.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Hisato Nagaoka, Xiaoshuan Bai, Dmitry Goshko, Batzorig Baljinnyam, Toshiaki Yamamoto, Kaneaki Edo, Shigeru Kitanishi https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1060 A preliminary checklist of Papilionoidea from Barot valley, district Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India (Insecta: Lepidoptera) 2025-07-01T10:13:16+02:00 Gurinder Kaur Walia gurinderkaur_walia@yahoo.co.in Diksha Chopra chopradiksha31@gmail.com Neeraj Neeraj neeraj18697@gmail.com Jyoti Mahil jmahil1996@gmail.com Avtar Kaur Sidhu avtarkaur2000@gmail.com <p>This is a report of the Papilionoidea’ species diversity in the Barot valley of Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh (India). The present checklist was made based on a survey tour conducted in the month of May 2024. This study is the preliminary attempt to provide a checklist of the Papilionoidea fauna of a remote valley Barot in district Mandi. This report is a baseline for future studies on Papilionoidea from this area.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1061 Callima kenyensis Agassiz, sp. nov., description of a new species of Oecophoridae from Africa (Insecta: Lepidoptera) 2025-07-01T10:13:05+02:00 David Agassiz david.agassiz@gmail.com <p>A new species is described in the genus <em>Callima</em> Clemens, 1860 from Kenya, and this is compared with species from the Eastern Mediterranean and Zimbabwe.</p> 2025-07-01T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1062 Rediscovery of Vadina hodeei hodeei (Oberthür, 1881) in Colombia (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) 2025-07-01T10:13:15+02:00 Robert Worthy castnia@btopenworld.com Jorge M. González gonzalez.jorge.m@gmail.com <p>We report on a specimen of <em>Vadina hodeei hodeei</em> (Oberthür, 1881) collected in 2019 and several more collected in 2024. As far as we can ascertain, the previously most recently collected dated specimen was in 1931, so the subspecies hadn’t been collected for 88 years.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Robert Worthy, Jorge M. González https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1063 Hyperlais lutosalis (Mann, 1862) a new record to the Maltese Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyriinae) 2025-07-01T10:13:14+02:00 Aldo Catania aldocatania47@gmail.com Anthony Seguna seguna@onvol.net John J. Borg john.j.borg@gov.mt Paul Sammut farfett@onvol.net <p><em>Hyperlais lutosalis</em> (Mann, 1862) is reported for the first time from the Maltese Islands. A Maltese name is proposed for this new record.</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Aldo Catania, Anthony Seguna, John J. Borg, Paul Sammut https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1071 M. Top, D. Frisch & V. Kononenko Noctuidae Europaeae Essential 2025-06-09T12:57:14+02:00 Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es <p>Book reviews</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1072 J. García Pérez, J. J. Bacallado Aránega, R. García Becerra, I. Santos Perdomo, C. Ruiz Carreira & A. Delgado Izquierdo Mariposas diurnas de Canarias 2025-06-09T19:17:39+02:00 Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es <p>Book reviews</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Vives Moreno https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1065 H. Chiba, H. Tsukiyama & G. C. Bozano Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Hesperiidae part II 2025-06-05T19:01:22+02:00 Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es <p>Book reviews</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Vives Moreno https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1066 R. Leverton & M. Cubitt The Larger Moths of Scotland 2025-06-06T08:28:25+02:00 Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es <p>Book reviews</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Vives Moreno https://shilap.org/revista/article/view/1068 J. H. H. Zwier Aganainae of the World 2025-06-08T08:53:44+02:00 Antonio Vives Moreno avives1954@outlook.es <p>Book reviews</p> 2025-06-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Vives Moreno