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
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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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Dysstroma citrata
(Linnaeus)
, ab.
(
Fig. 43
)
Dysstroma korbi
, nec (Heydemann):
Beljaev & Mironov 2019: 261
(
Sakhalin
);
Beljaev & Mironov 2019
;
Vasilenko & Dubatolov 2021: 258
(Yasnomorskoe);?
Kurina
2022g
: GBIF occurrence 3023181481 (Juzno-Sahhalinsk).
Material examined.
1 ♂,
S
Kholmsk,
01.VIII.2017
.
Remarks.
The erroneous report of
D. korbi
from
Sakhalin
(
Beljaev & Mironov 2019
) was based on the dark specimen with a postmedial line going similar to that in this species. However, subsequent dissection of the genitalia showed their similarity to those in
D. citrata
. The report of “
D. korbi
” from
Sakhalin
by
Vasilenko & Dubatolov (2021)
is also based on a misidentification of
D. citrata
(personal communication by S.V. Vasilenko). In the GBIF, an indication of “
D. korbi
” from
Sakhalin
is based on the specimen kept in the IZBE Entomological collection (
Kurina 2022f
), taken
12.VIII.
1975
in Juzno-Sakhalinsk. However, this report needs to be revised as
D. korbi
was never mentioned from
Sakhalin
by Viidalepp in his publications. Thus, for now
D. korbi
has to be excluded from the fauna of
Sakhalin
.
Generally, high similarity in the wing pattern and the shape of genitalia in the genus
Dysstroma
Hübner
, accompanied with its high polymorphism lead to numerous misidentifications. Some of them concerning the East Asian fauna were discussed by
Beljaev (2016: 618–619)
. In particular, the nominal taxon
Cidaria nyiwonis
Matsumura, 1925
was revised as a subspecies of
Dysstroma infuscata nyiwonis
(
Matsumura, 1925
)
, leading to the name
Dysstroma citrata conformalis
(Prout, 1937)
(
Prout 1934
–1939) being restored from a synonymy with
C. nyiwonis
(
Beljaev 2016: 620
)
. In appearance the discussed male from
Sakhalin
well corresponds to “
Dysstroma citrata nyiwonis
” (=
D. c. conformalis
) of Japanese authors (
Inoue 1982a: 484
,
1982b
: pl. 73, figs 20–25;
Nakajima & Yazaki 2011: 276
, figs 1-060-7—1-060-11). However, the illustrated female genitalia of this subspecies (
Nakajima & Yazaki 2011
: Fig.Nsha11-2) differ from those of
D. citrata
and are similar to those of
Dysstroma dentifera
(Warren)
pictured by
Heydemann (1929
, Taf. 9, Fig. 81a). On the other hand, “
D. infuscata
” of Japanese authors, judging from the images of the moths (
Inoue 1982b
, pl. 73, figs 15–19;
Nakajima & Yazaki 2011
, figs 1-060- 1—1-060-6) and the female genitalia (
Nakajima & Yazaki 2011
, Fig.Nsha11-3, Fig.Nsha11-4), is qite similar to the typical Far Eastern moths of
D. citrata
. Thus, East Asian taxa from the
D. citrata
species-group need to be carefully revised.
To avoid possible errors in identification, it should be noted that in
Nakajima & Yazaki (2011)
the photos of the female genitalia on Fig.Nsha11-5 and Fig.Nsha11-6 (page 276), captioned as “
D. korbi
”, well correspond to the genitalia of
D. citrata
.