Blenina senex (Butler, 1878)

Dubatolov, V. V., Zinchenko, V. K & Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya., 2023, Autumn moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) new for the fauna of Kunashir Island, Far Eastern Entomologist 474, pp. 11-24 : 17

Blenina senex (Butler, 1878)

Fig. 3

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , Danilovskii kordon, 21.X 2022, 1 ♀. DISTRIBUTION. The species was formerly known from Japan: Honshu, Shikoku ,

Kyushu, Tsushima, Yaku, Amami, Okinawa; Korea, China, including Taiwan (Kishida,

2011). New for Russia; on Kunashir this species is occasionally vagrant.

Family Erebidae Thyas juno (Dalman, 1823)

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , Andreevskii kordon, 26.IX, 30.IX-6.X, 14-24.X 2022, 12 ♂, 6 ♀ , 2 visual observations; Danilovskii kordon, 7-10.X 2022, 4 ♂, 2 ♀ .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: SE Transbaikalia (vagrant), Amur Province (vagrant), Jewish Autonomous Oblast’, the southern part of Khabarovskii krai, north to river Tumnin (vagrant), Primorskii krai, Sakhalin; Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yaku, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, Ishigaki, Iiriomote ( Kishida et al., 2011); Korea, China, Taiwan, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina, Thailand, India, Nepal ( Kononenko, 2010).

REMARK. The species is common in Kunashir, but is very poorly attached by light (just 4 specimens); most specimens were attached by gyle wine with sugar, including bait traps.

Family Eutelidae

Figures

Figs 3–4. Noctuids from Kunashir Island, dorsal view. 3 – Blenina senex (Butler, 1878), ♀; 4 – Euplexidia angusta Yoshimoto, 1987, ♀.