Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the Baikal region: identification keys and annotated catalogue with notes to DNA barcoding. Part 2. Archiearinae, Geometrinae, Sterrhinae
Author
Makhov, Ilya
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3.
Leucobrephos middendorfii
(Ménétriés, 1858)
(adults
Fig. 15C
; male gen.
Figs. 32E, 32F
; female gen.
Fig. 32G
)
Biston middendorfii
:
Erschov & Field, 1870: 166
.
Brephos middendorfii
:
Staudinger & Wocke, 1871: 143
;
Staudinger & Rebel, 1901: 260
.
Leucobrephos middendorfii nivea
W. Kozhantschikov, 1924
:
Viidalepp, 1976: 843
;
1996: 11
;
Beljaev & Mironov, 2019: 235
.
Leucobrephos middendorfii
:
Berlov & Berlov, 2008: 50
;
Mironov
et al
., 2008: 190
.
Material examined.
Irkutskaya Oblast
: “
Lower Tunguska river, the road to Korelinskaya vill.”, 15.IV.?, 1 ♁, (unknown collector) [
ZIN
].
Altay Republic
:
Ongudaysky Distr.
,
25 km
NW of Tuekta
vill.,
Seminsky Pass
(
51°10’26.48”N
,
85°37’24.57”E
, h=
1620 m
), 1 ♁,
S.A. Knyazev
[
SK
] (GenBank ID:
OK073156
).
Republic of
Sakha
(Yakutia)
: “Jablonevoj (Gebge). Jukutsk-Geb.”,
23.IV.1915
, 3 ♁;
same loc.,
24.IV.1915
, 1 ♁,
1 ♀
,
W. Kozhantshikov
;
“Yakut expedition of Academy of Sciences, Aldan river, near the estuary of Tymiton river”,
11.
V
.1926, 1 ♁,
Zaykov
[
ZIN
].
Khabarovsky Kray
: “near riv. Chelasin, 25–30 versts [unlegible] Stanovoy Range, Ayan–Nel’kan expedition, end of April–beginning of
May 1903
”, 1 ♁; “56 versts, 20.IV.10” [flew over the snow], 1 ♁; “68 versts, [unlegible], 21.IV.10”, 2 ♁; “57 versts, 21.IV.10”, 2 ♁, Popov [
ZIN
].
Amurskaya Oblast
: “Zeya river”, no date, 2 ♁, unknown collector; “
Amur
expedition of Gondatti, detachment of Prokhorov, placer on the left shore of riv.?Unaka [=Unakha]”,
29.IV.1911
, 1 ♁, Nikiforov [
ZIN
]
.
Distribution.
Uralian–Far Eastern, boreal. From Polar Urals to
Kamchatka
and Primorye. Outside
Russia
:
Mongolia
.
Hostplants:
unknown. Caterpillars of the nearest species
L. brephoides
(Walker, 1857)
feed on
Betula
,
Alnus
,
Populus
and
Salix
(
Beljaev 2016
)
.
Genetic note.
There were not available material for DNA barcoding from the Baikal region, however, I have obtained the sequence from Altaian specimen (see “Material examined”). It differs from
COI
of
L. brephoides
(inhabits the boreal zone of North America) by 3.2–3.4%.
Subfamily
GEOMETRINAE
Tribe
GEOMETRINI