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.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-08
5369
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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
Gandaritis whitelyi
(Butler)
(
Fig. 39
)
Gandaritis whitelyi
:
Beljaev & Mironov 2019: 264
(
Sakhalin
).
Material examined.
1 ♀
,
S
Kholmsk,
25.VII.2021
; 1 ♂, Sokhonda mount.,
21.VII.2019
.
Distribution.
Russia
(S RFE: SW
Sakhalin
, S Kurils—Kunashir, S Primorskii Krai),
Japan
(
Hokkaido
, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu),
North Korea
,
South Korea
,
China
(NE, N, Central).
Remarks.
The finding of
G. whitelyi
in
Sakhalin
significantly expands its distribution range to the northeast. The larvae feed on
Actinidia arguta
(
Actinidiaceae
), several plants of which grew near the collection site. The collected specimens have narrowed black elements in the wing pattern, and in appearance they well correspond to the nominative subspecies
G. whitelyi whitelyi
, distributed in
Hokkaido
and the Kuril Islands.