Hadula vassilinini (Bang Haas, 1927) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) new to the fauna of Iran with description of its female

In spite of many taxonomic and faunistic publications on the Noctuidae of Iran, still many regions in this country are not well studied and need further intensive faunistic surveys. The number of recorded noctuid species from Iran exceeds 1200 at the moment (Esfandiari et al. 2010 & 2011). The genus Hadula Staudinger, 1889 contains seven subgenera Hadula Staudinger, 1889, Cardiestra Boursin, 1963, Ptochicestra Hacker, 1998, Aglossestra Hampson, 1905, Calocestra Beck, 1991, Pulchrohadula Hacker, 1998 and Discestra Hampson, 1905 (Hacker, 1998). Hacker (1998) listed six species and one ssp. including H. (Cardiestra) vassilinini in the subgenus Cardiestra Boursin, 1963 with an identification key. Three new taxa were added by Gyulai (2002, 2008) to the subgenus Cardiestra. Type locality of the ssp. Hadula vassilinini deserta Gyulai, 2002 in Iraq is about 450 km westward form where we collected our material in south-west Iran.