A new species of Pharmacis Hübner, 1820 from Spain with a brief review of the genera Pharmacis and Korscheltellus Börner, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae)
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A new species of Pharmacis Hübner, 1820 from Spain with a brief review of the genera Pharmacis and Korscheltellus Börner, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae)
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<jats:p>We here describe a new ghost moth (Hepialidae) species,<jats:italic>Pharmaciscantabricus</jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. n.</jats:bold>from the Picos de Europa National Park, Cantabria, in northern Spain. The new species belongs to a group of mostly day-flying species that are restricted to the European Alps and some mountain ranges of southern Europe. Based on morphology and analysis of mitochondrial COI gene sequences, the new species is closely related to<jats:italic>Pharmacisaemilianus</jats:italic>(Constantini, 1911), an endemic of the Italian Apennines. However,<jats:italic>Pharmaciscantabricus</jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. n.</jats:bold>can easily be distinguished from all related species based on both external and genitalic characters. We briefly review and illustrate all species of the genus<jats:italic>Pharmacis</jats:italic>Hübner, 1820 and discuss its relationship with the related genus<jats:italic>Korscheltellus</jats:italic>Börner, 1920. We reinstate<jats:italic>Hepialuscastillanus</jats:italic>Oberthür, 1883 as a distinct species and transfer it to<jats:italic>Korscheltellus</jats:italic>(<jats:bold>stat. rev.</jats:bold>,<jats:bold>comb. n.</jats:bold>).</jats:p>