Idaea alicantaria ( Reisser, 1963 )

Marabuto, Eduardo, 2022, Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25, pp. 305-322 : 310

12. Idaea alicantaria ( Reisser, 1963)

— Castro Marim, Faro. 2 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29SPB3821. 12.VI.2020. Eduardo Marabuto leg. Daytime spotting. Several specimens. ( Fig. 2h ) .

Iberian endemic species with two main populations (Alicante-Almería area and in the Ebro valley) and small, satellite ones in Ibiza (Balearic islands) and the left bank of Guadalquivir river (Cádiz) ( Hausmann, 2004; Redondo et al., 2009) in thermomediterranean, halophitic environments at low altitude. Interestingly, the species has not yet been found in the well researched coastal protected areas of the HuelvA province in SpAin And this record thus represents A 100 km rAnge extension of the species’ distribution to the west, although its presence in the country had already been hypothesized in the original description ( Reisser, 1963).

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Fig. 2.- Habitus of new Portuguese species. a.- Epiphyas postvittana. b.- Spialia rosae. c.- Lobesia limoniana, L5 larva on Limonium ovalifolium. d.- Lobesia limoniana. e-f.- Titanio tarraconensis. g.- Apochima flabellaria. h.- Idaea alicantaria. Photos: Eduardo Marabuto (a-f & h); Dinis Versa Silva (g).