Desmobathrinae

Beljaev, Evgeniy A., Vasilenko, Sergey V., Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Zinchenko, Vadim K., 2024, First report on late autumn geometer moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Kunashir Island, Russia (Southern Kurils), Amurian Zoological Journal XVI (4), pp. 979-995 : 985-987

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https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-4-979-995

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scientific name

Desmobathrinae
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Subfamily Desmobathrinae View in CoL

** Alsophila inouei Nakajima, 1989 ( Fig. 3 C View Fig )

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, 5– 6.11.2023 – 1♂.

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S Kurils – Kunashir); Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).

Remarks. This species is newly record- ed for both the Kuril Islands and Russia as a whole. In Japan in Honshu, in the Kanto region, the species is distributed in the mountains between 700 and 1000 m a. s. l., where moths appear from late November to early December. The species coexists with Alsophila japonensis , but habitat of A. inouei is restricted to a narrow range of high altitudes, and its flight period is short (Nakajima 2011). Larvae of A. inouei has been observed feeding on Alnus hirsuta ( Betulaceae ) (Nakajima 2011), though it is likely to be polyphagous on various leaved woody plants.

* Alsophila japonensis (Warren, 1894) ( Figs 3 D View Fig , 4 C View Fig )

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, at light: 10– 11.11.2023 – 3♂, 13– 14.11.2023 – 9♂, 15– 16.11.2023 – 4♂, 16– 17.11.2023 – 1♂, 18– 19.11.2023 – 11♂, 19– 20.11.2023 – 4♂, 20– 21.11.2023 – 1♂, 21– 22.11.2023 – 2♂, 22– 23.11.2023 – 1♂; ibid., road and nearby forest on the plateau, at night , 15.11.2023 – 1♂ (Dubatolov, Zinchenko); ibid., plateau, in light trap: 16 – 17.11.2023 – 5♂, 18–19.11.202 – 32♂; ibid., plateau , 15.11.2023 (Dubatolov, Zinchenko) – 1♂; ibid., road and nearby forest on the plateau, at night , 19.11.2023 (Zinchenko) – 1♂.

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S Khabarovsk Kr., Primorsky Kr., SW Sakhalin, S Kurils – Kunashir); Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima), South Korea, China (Northeast, Central: Jiangsu).

Remarks. The species is new for the Kuril Islands. The collected specimens belong to the nominate Japanese subspecies A. japonensis japonensis , which is also found on Sakhalin. On Kunashir, the moths fly from the second week until the end of November, whereas on Sakhalin, the species was recorded from the mid- to late October ( Beljaev, Titova 2023). In Japan, A. japonensis emerges in Hokkaido and in mountains of Honshu from late October to mid-November, and in plains of the latter island from December to early February (Nakajima 2011). In the continental part of the RFE, the moths are observed from mid-October to the first part of November ( Beljaev 1996). The larvae feed on various leaved woody plants.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Alsophila

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