Polia (Polia) malchani (Draudt, 1934)

Aplecta malchani Draudt, 1934, in A. Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 3: 108, pl. 14, row i. Type-locality: [Russia] Transbaikalia, Malchan Mt, “ Borochojewa ”, 800 m. Holotype: female, in coll. MNB.

Taxonomic notes. This is the only species of the group where the abdominal brush organ is fully reduced. It has a wide but obviously incompletely known area extending from the southern Ural Mts to the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan, seemingly without any geographical trend of variation.