Pasiphila excisa (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 : 991

Pasiphila excisa (Butler, 1878)

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, 22– 23.10.2023 – 2♂, 26– 27.10.2023 – VO, 27– 28.10.2023 – VO, ibid., alder forest, 23– 24.10.2023 – 1♂, 1♀ ; ibid., plateau, mixed forest, on grass, 28– 29.10.2023 (Zinchenko) – 1♂ ; Andreevskii Cordon, 1– 2.11.2023 – 1♂; ibid., ridge, birch forest, in bottle, 23– 24.10.2023 – 1 ind .

Distribution. Russia (S RFE:SE Khabarovsk Kr., Primorsky Kr., S Sakhalin, S Kurils — Ku - nashir); South Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Izu Islands, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima).

Remarks. On Kunashir, P. excisa is occasionally observed from the second half of May ( Rybalkin, Beljaev 2023) to early November. In Japan, the species is common in various regions from May to October, and develops in two or three generations per year. The larvae are known to develop on flowers of various Ericaceae , as well as on Quercus glauca ( Fagaceae ) and Euonymus japonicus ( Celastraceae ) ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011).