Distribution and geographical differentiation of the Central Asian endemic species Lyela myops (Staudinger, 1881) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

Abstract

The article describes a new subspecies, Lyela myops tashkumirica ssp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) from Tashkumir vic., Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan. The differences between the new taxon and the previously described L. myops myops (Staudinger, 1881) (E Kazakhstan and N Kyrgyzstan), L. myops mangystavica Lukhtanov, 1994 (W Kazakhstan), L. myops babatagi Tshikolovets, [1998] (S Uzbekistan and E Turkmenistan) and L. myops tekkensis (Staudinger, 1886) (NE Iran and SW Turkmenistan) are described in detail.