Two new species of the subfamily Xyleninae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Author
Kononenko, Vladimir
text
Zootaxa
2009
1993
53
60
journal article
29770
10.5281/zenodo.1302869
111ec1e3-9549-4bc1-84bf-479ba57cfd5b
1175-5326
1302869
Chasminodes ussurica
Kononenko, 1982
(
Figs. 3, 5, 6
)
Chasminodes ussurica
Kononenko, 1982
,
Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie
51 (3): 595, fig. 19, 23. Type-locality: Russia, south of Primorye Terr., Ryazanovka. (Types: ZI, St. Petersburg).
Material
examined.
Type
series, including
10 males
and
3 females
, collected in
Ryazanovka
(
Khasansky district
of
Primorye Terr.
)
30.vii–2.viii.1979
(
Kononenko
); additional material
: 2 males, Barabash, Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve
24.vii.2001
(Kononenko); 3 males 2 females, Ryazanovka
31.viii–3.ix.1998
(Kononenko); 3 males Krounovka,
18–20.vii.2006
(Kononenko);
5 males
,
Sukhanovsky
pass,
7 km
SW Ryazanovka
,
20–24.vii.2004
;
7 ex,
Amur
reg.,
Kundur
,
19–22.vii. 1988
;
1 male
,
North Korea
, Mt. Myohyangsan,
400 m
,
21–23.vii/ 1986
(
P. Saek
)
; 3 males, 1 female, North China, Changbashan Mt.,
600–700 m
,
1.viii.2001
,
19–20.vii.2001
(Han). Genitalia prep.: male—167 HL CIS (
Fig. 5
), female—162 HL CIS (
Fig. 6
).
Distribution and Biology.
(
Fig. 12
).
Russia
: South east of
Amur
region (
Kononenko 1992
), south of
Khabarovsk
Terr. (vicinity of
Khabarovsk
; Dubatolov, pers. comm.), south and south west Primorye; Korean Peninsula (
Ahn
et al.
1996
), North
China
(
Han
et al.
2003
). The species inhabits lowlands and hillsides covered by broad-lived or mixed forest with abundance of lime trees (
Tilia manchurica
and
T. amurensis
). Flight period from July to early September. Probably overwinters as egg. Early stages and foodplants unknown.