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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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5369.1.1/52227
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.1
1175-5326
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Gandaritis evanescens
(Butler)
(
Fig. 37
)
Gandaritis evanescens
:
Beljaev & Mironov 2019: 264
(
Sakhalin
).
Material examined.
1 ♂,
S
Kholmsk,
27.VII.2017
; 16 ♂,
4 ♀
, Yasnomorskoe and Sokhonda mount., 19, 20, 21, 23,
26.VII.2019
; 1 ♂,
4 ♀
, Sokhonda mount.,
11–13.VIII.2020
.
Distribution.
Russia
(S RFE: SW
Sakhalin
, S Kurils—Iturup and Kunashir),
Japan
(
Hokkaido
, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima),
South Korea
,
China
(Central, SE, SW).
Remarks.
The finding of
G. evanescens
in Sakhalin significantly expands its distribution range to the north. The examined moths have narrowed dark elements in the wing pattern, which is characteristic to the moths from
Hokkaido
described as a subspecies
G. evanescens borearia
Inoue. In
Japan
the known host plants of the larvae belong to
Hydrangea
and
Schizophragma
(
Hydrangeaceae
); of them
Hydrangea paniculata
is common in SW Sakhalin and the moths of this species were usually observed closely associated with the thickets of this plant.