Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808])

Dubatolov, V. V. & Zinchenko, V. K., 2024, New records of the noctiud moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Noctuidae) from Kunashir Island, collected in late autumn 2023, Far Eastern Entomologist 512, pp. 24-28 : 27

Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808])

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MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , Andreevskii Cordon env., bait traps, 23.X.2023, 1♂ .

DISTRIBUTION. Nearly cosmopolitan species, distributed mostly in the troipical and subtropical areas. Russia (European part to South Urals, Crimea, the Caucasus; also reported from Sakhalin: Kholmsk, 14.X.2017 ( Titova, 2018)). – Europe (in northern regions as a migrant), Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, India, Nepal, South-Eastern Asia, China, Korea (Cheju-do), Taiwan, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima), Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America ( Kononenko et al., 1998).

REMARKS. Firstly recorded from Kuril Islands. In Kunashir , as in Sakhalin also, this is a migrant species. It was caught in bait traps with Cahors vine in Late October .

Figures

Figs 1–5. Noctuids from Kunashir Island, Andreevskii kordon, dorsal view. 1 – Gonitis mesogona (Walker, 1858), ♀; 2 – Peridroma saucia (Hübner, [1808]), ♂; 3 – Lithophane lamda (Fabricius, 1787), ♂; 4 – Lithophane ustulata (Butler, 1878), ♂; 5 – Condica illecta (Walker, 1865), ♂.