New data on geometroid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Uraniidae and Geometridae) from Sakhalin and Moneron islands with notes on their taxonomy distribution and ecology
Author
Beljaev, Еvgeniy A.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
Author
Titova, Olga L.
Sakhalin Territory Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Sakhalinskaya oblast, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-08
5369
1
1
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5369.1.1/52227
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.1
1175-5326
10147411
B39D176D-381C-4F77-8A5F-F7992335930D
Idiotephria evanescens
(Staudinger)
(
Fig. 33
)
Material examined.
2 ♂,
S
Kholmsk,
21.VI.2021
,
21.V.2022
.
Distribution.
Russia
(S RFE: SW *
Sakhalin
, S Kurils—Kunashir (
Rybalkin
et al
. 2022
), S Khabarovskii Krai, Primorskii Krai),
Japan
(
Hokkaido
, Honshu, Shikoku, Tsushima),
South Korea
.
Remarks.
The finding of
I. evanescens
in Sakhalin significantly expands its distribution range to the northeast. Both examined specimens, as well as the moth from Kunashir (
Rybalkin
et al
. 2022
, fig. 34) possess unusually light coloration of wings, which is also occurs in the moths from
Hokkaido
. The known hostplant in
Japan
is
Quercus mongolica
subsp.
crispula
(
Fagaceae
), which is widely, but sparsely occurs in S Sakhalin as well.