taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D03742FFE9FFC9E0F8A4A82C01A0AB.taxon	description	(Figs 1, 2)	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
03D03742FFE9FFC9E0F8A4A82C01A0AB.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. 1 male, 21. V. 2024, East Kazakhstan, 2 km SE of Zhidely (former Ordynka) Vill., right bank of Kara-Irtysh River, W edge of Ashutas Mt., 48 ° 1 ' 41.6 '' N 85 ° 19 ' 17.6 '' E, 430 m, A. U. Gabdullina, S. V. Titov & G. A. Bolbotov leg. Note. The species was originally placed in the monotypic genus Tancrea Püngeler, 1898 but Rönkä et al. (2016) synonymised Tancrea along with six other genera with Chelis Rambur, [1866] as a result of the phylogenetic analysis based on seven nuclear and one mitochondrial gene markers. Bionomics. Males are on wing from May to early July (Gorbunov 2011; Korb et al. 2017), and are active in daytime and evening twilight (Toropov et al. 2023). The female is brachypterous (Püngeler 1898). In East Kazakhstan, the single male individual was found in day time (at approximately 12: 00) sitting on the ground in windy conditions (Fig. 2). The habitat in the Zaisan Depression is a clay semidesert, which is sparsely overgrown with species of the genera Anabasis L., Artemisia L., Atriplex L., Krascheninnikovia Güldenst., Agropyron Gaertn., Cistanche Hoffmg. & Link, Iris Tourn. ex L., Turgenia Hoffm., Stipa L., Taraxacum Wigg., Zygophyllum L., Allium L., Astragalus L., Tulipa L., Cousinia Cass., Tragopogon L., Scorzonera L., etc. (Fig. 3). In Southeast and West Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, the species is found in sandy deserts and semi-deserts (Dubatolov 1991; Gorbunov 2011) (Fig. 4). The preimaginal stages and food plants are unknown.	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
03D03742FFE9FFC9E0F8A4A82C01A0AB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The species is currently known from West, Southeast and East Kazakhstan and northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China (found in the Aral Depression, valleys of Ili River and its tributaries, and Zaisan Depression) (Püngeler 1898; Dubatolov 1991, 2010; Gorbunov 2011, and present study), Kyrgyzstan (Fergana Range) (Korb et al. 2017), and Turkmenistan (Karakum Desert) (Dubatolov 2010). The new finding in the Kara- Irtysh River Valley is the northernmost known locality of the species (Fig. 14).	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
03D03742FFEDFFCCE0F8A4752C68A5A5.taxon	description	(Figs 5 – 10)	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
03D03742FFEDFFCCE0F8A4752C68A5A5.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. 2 males, 5 females, 10. X. 2023, East Kazakhstan, E Zaisan Depression, Bozaygyrkum Sands, 47 ° 40 ' 39.77 '' N 85 ° 20 ' 12.94 '' E, 518 m, S. V. Titov leg.; 6 males, 9 females, 20. X. 2023, SE Kazakhstan, Zhetysu Region, Panfilov Distr., valley of Ili River, 510 m, 43 ° 57 ' 23.5 '' N 79 ° 39 ' 11.3 '' E, Haloxylon desert / Populus thickets / swampy floodplain, S. V. Titov & R. D. Rakhimov leg.; 1 female, 21. X. 2023, SE Kazakhstan, Zhetysu Region, Panfilov Distr., valley of Koybyn River, 877 m, 44 ° 09 ' 48.8 '' N 79 ° 30 ' 56.1 '' E, riverine woodland / clay hills, S. V. Titov & R. D. Rakhimov leg.; 1 male, 17. IV. 2014, SE Kazakhstan, Almaty Region, 14 km SE of Topar, sands, 360 m, N 44 ° 55.332 ', E 75 ° 06.399 ', Volynkin A. V., Titov S. V. & Knyazev S. A. leg.; 1 male, 18. IV. 2014, SE Kazakhstan, Almaty Region, 18 km NW of Bakanas, Ili River Valley, 380 m, N 44 ° 54.396 ', E 75 ° 55.548 ', Volynkin A. V., Titov S. V. & Knyazev S. A. leg. Note. The lectotypes for politina (male) and subspadiceana (female) were designated by Hreblay (1992), who also illustrated their genital structures as drawings. The photographs of the genitalia of both sexes of this species are illustrated for the first time in the present paper (Figs 9, 10). Bionomics. The moths are nocturnal and are on wing in October and April with imagoes of both sexes overwintering. The preimaginal stages and food plants are unknown. The species occurs in river valleys in the natural zones of semi-deserts and deserts, and in most places was observed in or near the thickets of turanga trees (Populus L. sect. Turanga Bunge). The collecting place in the eastern Zaisan Depression, the dune Bozaygyrkum Sands, has a mosaic vegetation cover. Groups of trees of Populus alba L. and Betula microphylla Bunge are hidden in depressions between dunes, where rainwater is retained for a long time. Patches of turanga thickets (Populus diversifolia Schrenk) are located separately on leveled areas at the foot of the dunes, almost without admixture of other tree and shrub species. The dominance of Calligonum rubicundum Bunge and Hippophae rhamnoides L. is also mosaic. Shrub vegetation occupies the slopes of the dunes and in places forms continuous thickets. Halimodendron halodendron (Pall.) Schneid., Salix wilhelmsiana M. Bieb., Ribes saxatile Pall., and Lonicera tatarica L. are confined to depressions between the dunes and some areas along the road where precipitation accumulates.	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
03D03742FFEDFFCCE0F8A4752C68A5A5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Uzbekistan (Staudinger 1888), Southeast and East Kazakhstan (Lehmann et al. 1998; present study). The new finding in the eastern Zaisan Depression is the north-easternmost known locality of the species. Acknowledgements Sergey Titov would like to express his sincere thanks to Timur N. Smagulov, director of Institute of Archaeological Research, Margulan University (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), for organising the collecting trip in the eastern Zaisan Depression in October 2023. The work of Sergey Titov was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Scientific Program “ Assessment of biological resources of the Kazakh part of the transboundary Irtysh basin in the context of climate change ” (BR 18574062). Anton Volynkin, Aliya Gabdullina, Gleb Bolbotov and Ruslan Rakhimov, while performing this work, received no specific grant from any funding agencies.	en	Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V., Gabdullina, Aliya U., Bolbotov, Gleb A., Rakhimov, Ruslan D. (2024): Two new records of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from the eastern Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 161-168, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.77.16, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.77.16
