<Emphasis Type="Italic">Kailasius autocrator</Emphasis> (Avinov, 1913) (Lepidoptera,Papilionidae) found in the alai mountain ridge (the Pamir-Alai) |
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| Authors: | S K Korb |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Mail Stop 186, 1000 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512, USA;(2) Department of Biology, Population and Conservation Biology Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA;(3) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA;(4) Section of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biology, Storer Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA |
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| Abstract: | A new subspecies, Kailasius autocrator murun Korb, ssp. n., of the species Kailasius autocrator (Avinov, 1913) from the eastern part of the Alai Mountain Ridge is described. This subspecies differs from the other known ones in the smaller size (the fore-wing length is less than 23 mm) and in the presence of 5 black rounded spots in the submarginal area of the hind-wing upper side (4 spots in the nominotypical subspecies and K. a. pshartanus). The new subspecies is shown to be the most archaic one among the subspecies of the genus Kailasius by the wing pattern. Possible ways for the origin of local and small populations of morphologically different subspecies of the genus are discussed. |
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