گزارش‌هایی از شب‌پره‌های Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) در چند استان همراه با یک گزارش جدید برای فون ایران

The Lepioptera order is the second largest insect order and accounts for about 10% of the total number of species in the animal kingdom. The Noctuidae family With over 40,000 known species is one of the largest families within the order Lepidoptera. Larvae of species in this family are phytophagous and several species cause economic loss annually. Despite of many surveys by foreign and native researchers, still there is a need for further studies to reach a complete list of this family in Iran. In this study, samplings were made in Khuzestan, Fars, Kerman and Khorasan-e Jonubi provinces by light trap during 2011 to 2016. Samples were taken from different elevations and vegetations. For identification, we used wing pattern or genitalia of males and females. Specimens were compared and identified according to available literature and materials of the Lepidoptera collection at State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe and Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Materials were deposited in “Insect and Mite Collection of Ahvazˮ at Department of Plant Protection, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. As a part of the results, 29 species were collected and identified belonging to seven subfamilies Cuculliinae, Psaphidinae, Metoponinae, Eustriotinae, Oncocnemidinae, Eriopinae and Acontiinae, among them Asteroscopus syriaca syriaca (Warren, 1910) is newly recorded for the Iranian fauna. This nominotypical subspecies have been recorded in Turkey and Armenia as well. In this presentation, species of the genus Asteroscopus will be reviewed with distribution and taxonomic notes. Furthermore, new data on distribution of the previously recorded species in Iran is given. Collected species are presented together with their taxonomic and bionomic characteristics.