taxonID	type	description	language	source
13599460C6F23933A4C92D4B040E8967.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named in honour of Marlies and Toni Mayr (Feldkirch, Austria) who collected the new species in companionship with Peter Huemer and recognized its differing morphology.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
13599460C6F23933A4C92D4B040E8967.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species can be distinguished from the pale forms of A. fatidica by its lighter appearance, which is the consequence of the generally paler, milky whitish hindwings. The hindwings of the new species have only sparse, light greyish-brown irroration along the costal margin and narrow and discontinuous submarginal stripe while the narrow marginal ribbon along the variably dark, often obsolescent or deleted terminal line is whitish, as are the hindwing cilia. The discal lunule is just a fine shadow on the upperside, and the veins have a fine brownish covering. The underside of the hindwing lacks the transverse stripe (only a diffuse patch at costal margin may be present), the costal area is paler, suffused with brown, and the discal spot is rather weak, usually with a whitish inner liner on the crossvein of the cell. By contrast, in A. fatidica, the typical specimens have dark greyish-brown suffused hindwings, with variably strongly diluted inner area, and a more prominently marked discal spot. Specimens with paler hindwings are relatively rare, but even they have broader and darker marginal field, extending in almost every specimen to the terminal line, and the discal lunule is stronger and darker, more contrasting than in A. mayrorum. The hindwing underside of A. fatidica is generally darker, usually with a broad and diffuse transverse stripe and a darker discal spot; these elements of the underside pattern are more strongly marked even in the palest A. fatidica specimens than in the new species. Another typical feature of A. mayrorum is the diffuse or obsolete postmedial line, which is less curved at the costa than in A. fatidica and A. mazeli. The dark dots tracking the fine terminal line are less prominent on the upperside than in the other two close relatives, and are almost invisible on the underside, only the thin terminal line is clearly marked. The detailed comparison of A. mayrorum and A. mazeli is given under the diagnosis of the latter species. Agrotis mayrorum can easily be distinguished from A. proverai by the external features of the moths, being on average remarkably larger, with a more robust body and distinctly broader forewings, paler and more greyish ground colour and more prominent tessellate wing pattern, having characteristically prominent pale lining of the cubital vein and the much paler, never strongly dark filled reniform stigma. The other elements of the wing pattern (e. g. the shape and distinctness of the postmedial line, its distance from the reniform stigma, the shape and size of the arrowhead-spots, etc.) sometimes overlap with the condition in A. proverai so are unreliable, although they are usually different in the majority of the specimens. The frontal prominence of A. mayrorum, although somewhat variable in shape and size, is less thick and more rounded or drop-shaped than the taller, more protruding frontal prominence of A. proverai. The diagnostic features of the male genitalia of A. mayrorum are the long and slender valva (comparatively the longest and narrowest within the European species of the fatidica complex), with a less dilated distal section and only a slightly convex distal dorsal margin and reduced membranous ventral edge along the sacculus; the most often elongated-triangular cucullus with pointed apex; the short and broad clasper, which is distinctly shorter than in A. mazeli and on average shorter and apically more rounded than in A. fatidica; the juxta is also somewhat larger and broader, more pentagonal than in A. fatidica and A. proverai. The basal dilated section of the vesica is large with a well-developed, rounded conical dorsal diverticulum; the ventral carinal bar and the subbasal serrate-dentate plate of vesica are connected by an angled membranous part. The carinal bar and the dentated plate are usually directly connected in the other three close relatives and the dentated plate is regularly stronger and more densely spiny in A. mayrorum than in the related species. The female genitalia of the three closely related species are very similar (the female of A. proverai is still unknown), although some differences can be found in the length and proportion of the ovipositor, the apophyses anteriores and the appendix bursae. Agrotis mayrorum has, in comparison with A. fatidica, proportionally a longer and more elongated ovipositor, longer apophyses anteriores and a longer appendix bursae; while the ovipositor, the ductus bursae, and the appendix bursae are proportionally longer than in A. mazeli.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
13599460C6F23933A4C92D4B040E8967.taxon	description	Description. Wingspan: males 40 - 45 mm, female 31 mm. The external appearance of A. mayrorum is similar to that of A. fatidica, but has narrower, more elongated and somewhat paler coloured forewings and much paler, ochreous-shaded whitish hindwings. Forewing ground colour pale creamy beige, mottled with pale brown and grey; costal area and all veins somewhat darker grey or grey-brown and defined broadly with paler ochreous-grey stripes. Antemedial line indistinct, double, strongest at dark claviform stigma, its lower tooth relatively long. Median fascia absent; median area with a few intracellular dark streaks running from postmedial line to lower cellvein; postmedial line obsolete, appearing as a thin pale shadow defined by a few darker dots between veins. Subterminal line faint, zigzagged, pale ochreous-grey, defined by conspicuous though not very sharply marked chevron-spots; terminal line fine, black (ish), either continuous or divided into a row of fine black lunules and / or streaks; fringe pale creamy beige, occasionally with somewhat darker brown midline. Stigmata well-defined, regularly outlined by black or dark blackish-brown; claviform stigma long, apically faintly rounded, with fine blackish-brown streak connecting it to postmedial line, its filling darker brown; orbicular of variable size and shape, most often flattened-elliptical, sometimes with pointed lateral edges and darker brown centre; reniform stigma large, elliptical, darkened, particularly in its distal half. Intracellular patch between stigmata dark brown or blackish; supracellular marking between crossvein and postmedial line also well-defined, blackish. Hindwing pale whitish or milky-white with fine ochreous sheen, costal area, termen and diffuse marginal stripe suffused with ochreous-brown; veins also brownish. Discal spot weak, small, often obsolete or missing; terminal line more or less continuous, pale ochreous-brown; cilia whitish or ivory-coloured. Forewing underside ochreous-whitish, variably suffused with pale fuscous, with faint discal dot and postmedial line; hindwing underside whitish with fine ochreous sheen, veins darkened, transversal line absent or very pale, shadow-like; discal spot also indistinct, pale brown with whitish centre.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
13599460C6F23933A4C92D4B040E8967.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The new species is known from the south-western Alps in Italy (Alpi Cozie) and in France from the Alpes Maritimes and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (formerly Basses Alpes, Hautes Alpes).	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
58873912A176F4E7D8CE01EB585FF6A5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named in honour of Robert Mazel who collected most of the type-series and generously supported our work with this important material.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
58873912A176F4E7D8CE01EB585FF6A5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species is the allopatric sister species of A. mayrorum, sharing the group features in the male antenna (longer and finer branches than in the fatidica - line), and the white (or whitish) hindwing. The two species can be distinguished by a series of external morphological features which are recognisable in almost all specimens. These differences are ca as large as those between A. mayrorum and A. fatidica. Agrotis mazeli differs from A. mayrorum by its somewhat narrower and more pointed forewings, which are also narrower and apically more pointed than those of A. fatidica but broader than those of A. proverai, a more sharply defined postmedial line with a clearly visible deep curve inwards at costal margin, on average smaller and more darkened orbicular and reniform stigmata, smaller and finer dark dots at terminal line, which are practically missing from the underside, and the smoothly, rather uniformly darkened forewing underside. In the genitalia, the males of A. mazeli can be distinguished from those of the closely related taxa by the short and basally broad valvae with the very typical, wide membranous ventral marginal section bordering the saccular part; the broad cucullus with finely pointed apex; the rather long and slender claspers; the comparatively short vinculum; the fine eversible bar of the ventral carina and the weak, dentated subbasal plate of the vesica; the rather short and obtusely conical dorso-lateral diverticulum of the inflated basal section of vesica; and the entire length of the vesica is somewhat shorter (in comparison with the total length of phallus) than in A. fatidica and A. mayrorum. In the female genitalia, the apophyses anteriores are longer and the appendix bursae is somewhat shorter than in A. fatidica; the ovipositor and the ductus bursae are proportionally shorter, and the appendix bursae is shorter than in A. mayrorum.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
58873912A176F4E7D8CE01EB585FF6A5.taxon	description	Description. Wingspan: males 40 - 41 mm, female 32 mm. The main external features are typical of the A. fatidica species-complex. Forewing ground colour pale greyish-brown or slate-grey, with darker grey and brown irroration; costa and veins darker than ground colour and defined broadly with paler ochreous-grey intervenal stripes. Antemedial line variably but strongly marked, partly obsolete; median fascia absent; median area usually less variegated than in the other related species. Postmedial line recognisable though diffuse, pale ochreous-grey, and defined by a row of dark dots; its upper part curved inwards rather strongly around reniform stigma. Subterminal line obsolescent, ochreous-grey, defined by a row of conspicuous intervenal chevron-spots; terminal line fine, black (ish), with weak or indistinct dark dots; cilia ochreous-grey, with variably strong brown midline. Stigmata well-defined, medium-sized or relatively small, outlined by black or dark blackish-brown; claviform stigma long, dark, blackish-brown with only a slightly paler filling; orbicular stigma rather small, usually flattened-elliptical (drop-shaped) with pointed posterior edge and darker brown centre. Reniform stigma medium-sized, elliptical or lunulate, with more or less diffuse dark grey-brown outline and filling (which is stronger than in A. mayrorum); intracellular dark patch between stigmata blackish-brown or blackish. Hindwing milky-white or light whitish-grey with fine ochreous shade, costal area, termen and diffuse marginal stripe with ochreous-brown or greyish suffusion of variable strength; veins darkened. Discal spot rounded or somewhat lunulate, often shadow-like; terminal line more or less continuous, brownish; cilia whitish with some pale brownish shading. Forewing underside rather unicolorous grey, suffused with fuscous, discal dot and postmedial line obsolescent or missing. Hindwing underside whitish with darker veins, reduced transversal line and relatively well-defined discal spot; terminal line fine, brown, without or with only very small darker dots.	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
58873912A176F4E7D8CE01EB585FF6A5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The new species is known from the eastern Pyrenees in France and Spain. The type-series originates from the French side of the Pyrenees; the occurrence of the species on the Spanish side is documented by Redondo et al. (2010, under the name A. fatidica).	en	Ronkay, Laszlo, Huemer, Peter (2018): Agrotis fatidica (Huebner, 1824) species-group revisited, with description of two new species from the Alps and the Pyrenees (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 41 (1): 145-179, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.23090
