New and rare for the fauna of Kunashir Island species of Noctuoidea, Drepanoidea и Geometroidea (Lepidoptera)

Abstract

Pachista superans (Butler, 1878) (Geometridae) is recorded from Russia for the first time. Three species, Melanchra postalba Sugi, 1982 (Noctuidae), Pseudoips sylpha Butler, 1879 (Nolidae), and Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877 (Drepanidae) are new for the fauna of the Kuril Islands. The actual abundance and distribution of the rare species Asteropetes noctuina (Butler, 1878) (Noctuidae) is specified.

New for the fauna of Kunashir Island moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Carposinidae, Zygaenidae, Tortricidae, Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae, Lycaenidae)

“…An annotated lists of species of the families Zygaenidae, Noctuidae and Nolidae distributed in the Russian Far East has been published recently (Efetov, 2016;Kononenko, 2016a;. A lot of novelties for the fauna of Kunashir Island species was recorded later (Rybalkin & Yakovlev, 2017;Rybalkin et al, 2018Rybalkin et al, , 2019Dubatolov, 2019). However, Gastropacha populifolia (Esper, 1784), Lasiocampidae (Rybalkin et al, 2018), Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877, Drepanidae, Pseudoips sylpha (Butler, 1879), Nolidae from Kunashir (Rybalkin et al, 2019) were omitted in the "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia" .…”

“…A lot of novelties for the fauna of Kunashir Island species was recorded later (Rybalkin & Yakovlev, 2017;Rybalkin et al, 2018Rybalkin et al, , 2019Dubatolov, 2019). However, Gastropacha populifolia (Esper, 1784), Lasiocampidae (Rybalkin et al, 2018), Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877, Drepanidae, Pseudoips sylpha (Butler, 1879), Nolidae from Kunashir (Rybalkin et al, 2019) were omitted in the "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia" . Among Macrolepidoptera species set collected in Kunashir, Dubatolov (2019) reported Triphaenopsis cinerascens (Butler, 1885) from Andreevsky and Danilovsky Kordons (new record for Southern Kurils), this species Rybalkin also collected in Tretyakovo in September, 2019 (Figs 22-23), and Apamea commixta (Butler, 1881) from Danilovsky Kordon (Kuril Nature Reserve); the last record was new for Kunashir but not for the Southern Kuril Islands (Kononenko, 2016b).…”

“…2.1. of 10.06.2021". Unfortunately, some of these identifications were not correct; for example, all photos of P. sylpha (Butler, 1879), except for the figured in the publication (Rybalkin et al, 2019), which Dubatolov have examined, turned out to be P. prasinana (Linnaeus, 1758).…”

“…Russia: Kunashir Island, 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 16-28.VII 2015, 6 ex., 10-25.VII 2017 DISTRIBUTION. Russia (S. Khabarovskii krai (new record, the species is common, together with its sibling Melanchra persicariae (Linnaeus, 1761) in Khabarovsk suburbs), Primorskii krai, Sakhalin Island (Rybalkin et al, 2018), Kunashir Island), China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu) (Kononenko, 2016a;Rybalkin et al, 2018;Rybalkin et al, 2019).…”

New data on Lepidoptera of Kuril Islands

“…The fauna of Lepidoptera in the Russian Far East is studied insufficiently. In the recent years, significant additions have been made to the Lepidoptera fauna of Russia and Kuril islands Kononenko, 2016f, b;Rybalkin & Yakovlev, 2017;Rybalkin et al, 2018Rybalkin et al, , 2019. The present paper is based on the material collected by author in Kunashir Island in 2019.…”