Esperiana Memoir, Volume 5

About this book

Language: two chapters in German, the remainder in English

This volume contains 14 chapters dealing with taxonomy and taxonomical revisions of a range of groups of Lepidoptera. There is one further chapter, which is an obituary to Dr. Karlheinz Politzar.

Contents

Noctuidae of Cape Verde Islands (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
(Hermann H. Hacker, Hans-Peter Schreier and Eyjolf Aistleitner) 7

Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogué, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
(Hermann H. Hacker and Axel Hausmann) 97

Obituary to Dr. Karlheinz Politzar. 5th October 1938 - 20th October 2007
(Hermann H. Hacker and Axel Hausmann) 169

Noctuidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) with notes on the fauna of the southern Arabian Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
(Hermann H. Hacker and Aidas Saldaitis) 172

Revision of the genus Oraesia Guenée, 1852 (Old World) and related genera (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Calpinae)
(Gottfried Behounek, Hermann H. Hacker and Wolfgang Speidel) 243

A new genus of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from the Afrotropical Region with the description of seven new species
(Ingo Lehmann) 294

New Dasypolia Guenée, 1852 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) taxa from Central Asia
(Povilas Ivinskis and Aidas Saldaitis) 323

Ulotrichopus eugeniae spec. nov. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Catocalinae) from East-Africa
(Aidas Saldaitis and Povilas Ivinskis) 329

Aethalopteryx diksami, a new species (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) from Yemen, Sokotra Island
(Roman Yakovlev and Aidas Saldaitis) 333

Two new species of Tischeriidae from East Africa (Lepidoptera, Tischerioidea)
(Wolfram Mey) 337

A taxonomic review of the genera Parapsectris Meyrick, 1911 and Athrips Billberg, 1820 in Africa
(Oleksiy V. Bidzilya) 341

Records of interesting eremic Noctuidae species new to several southern Mediterranean countries (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
(Lutz Lehmann) 409

Revisional notes on the Genus Thiacidas Walker, 1855 (= Trisula Moore, 1858, syn. nov.), new additional data on the Thiacidinae with descriptions of seven new species and two subspecies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
(Hermann H. Hacker and Alberto Zilli) 413

Taxonomische Ergebnisse der Bearbeitung der Nachtfalterfauna des südlichen Afrikas (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
(Lars Kühne) 433

Beiträge zur Taxonomie, Systematik und Faunistik von Noctuidae (Noctuoidea), hauptsächlich aus dem Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
(Hermann Hacker & Wolfram Mey) 457

Index 469
Plates 492

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