Photoscotosia lucicolens (Butler, 1878)

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 : 988

Photoscotosia lucicolens (Butler, 1878)

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, at bait traps, 18.10.2023 – 1♀; ibid., at light, 22– 23.10.2023 – 1♀ ; ibid., plateau, birch forest, in bottle, 24– 25.10.2023 (Zinchenko) – 2♀ .

Distribution. Distribution. Russia (S RFE: SW Primorsky Kr., S Kurils — Kunashir); Northeast China (Jilin), South Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima).

Remarks. This species was first recorded for the Kuril Islands by Beljaev et al. (Beljaev et al. 2023) based on a single female collect- ed at the same location at approximately the same time, i.e., 18–19 October 2022. In most of Japan Ph. lucicolens develops in two generations, moths fly in June and July, and in October, and very common in many places ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011). It cannot be ruled out that the collected females migrated from Hokkaido Island, as moths of the first generation have never been recorded on the Kuril Islands. The larvae feed on various species of Quercus ( Fagaceae ).