Polia (Polia) bombycina (Hufnagel, 1766)

Varga, Zoltán, Ronkay, Gábor, Nagy, Jenő & Ronkay, László, 2020, Contribution To The Taxonomy And Phylogeny Of The Genus Polia Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini): Species Groups And Pairs In The Holarctic Subgenus Polia S. Str., Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (1), pp. 35-67 : 54

Polia (Polia) bombycina (Hufnagel, 1766)

Phalaena bombycina Hufnagel, 1766 , Berlinisches Magazin 3 (4): 410. Type-locality: [ Germany] vic. of Berlin. Type (s) destroyed.

Taxonomic notes. The Asiatic populations of P. bombycina clearly show a western-eastern subdivision with some overlap in Mongolia. The west Asiatic group of populations has two contrasting forms (subspecies?) at the eastern edge of the range, (i) the dark bronze-brownish Polia bombycina puengeleri Lehmann, 1998 , described from [Kirghisia] Alexander Mts and occurring also in Kazakhstan, and (ii) the pale fawn-coloured Polia bombycina psammochrea Varga, 1974 , described from Mongolia, Govi Altai aimak, Khasaght Khajrhan Mts. The taxonomic subdivision of the eastern group (cf. Polia bombycina grisea (Butler, 1878)) described under some different names (see: VARGA et al. 2017) needs further surveys, as well as the populations occurring in the Caucasus range.