Acrobasis suavella ( Zincken, 1818 )

Yepishin, Viktor, Khalaim, Yevhenii, Demyanenko, Serhii, Govorun, Oleksandr, Novytskyi, Sergiy & Tsykal, Serhii, 2025, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine, Zootaxa 5696 (1), pp. 1-27 : 9

Acrobasis suavella ( Zincken, 1818)

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Material examined: Khmelnytskyi reg., Kamianets-Podilskyi distr., vic. of Subich vill. , 18.VII.2020, 1♂ O.Bidzilya leg. (VYe) . Luhansk reg., Spivakivka , 14.VII.2012, 1 ex. (photographed by S. Demyanenko) S. Demyanenko, O. Zhakov & V. Mushynskyi leg.

Distribution in Ukraine: Kyiv reg.: Lebedev 1937: 50 ( Rhodophaea ). Lviv reg.: Brunicki 1912: 151 ( Rhodophaea ). Ternopil reg.: Toll 1939: 153 ( Rhodophaea ). Kharkiv reg.: Karolinskiy et al. 2018: 79. Dnipropetrovsk reg.: Barsov et al. 2007: 137 ( Trachycera). Zaporizhzhia & Donetsk regs (Kamiani Mohyly Reserve): Bidzilya et al. 2001: 88 ( Gaana (Trachycera) ). Crimea: Bidzilya et al. 2003: 70 ( Trachycera); Budashkin 2004: 345 ( Trachycera). First records from Khmelnytskyi and Luhansk regions.

Remarks. In Ukraine, this species is widespread throughout the country, but very locally. The specimen from Khmelnytskyi region shown in Fig. 10 was collected by attraction at night to an artificial light source on the steep bank of the Dnister River, covered with meadow-steppe vegetation.

Figures

FIGURES 9–10. Phycitini spp.: 9. Female of Isauria dilucidella, wingspan 24 mm, Velykyi Bukryn. 10. Male of Acrobasis suavella, wingspan 22.5 mm, Subich.