Pachista superans (Butler, 1878)

Rybalkin, S. A., Yakovlev, R. V., Knyazev, S. A. & Beljaev, E. A., 2019, New and rare for the fauna of Kunashir Island species of Noctuoidea, Drepanoidea и Geometroidea (Lepidoptera), Far Eastern Entomologist 379, pp. 33-36 : 34

Pachista superans (Butler, 1878)

Fig. 1

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island, 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo vill.,

8.VIII 2017, 1 ♂, leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Kunashir Island), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu)

(Nakajima, 2011), Korea (north to North Pyongan Province: Bálint & Katona, 2011) (Kim et al., 2001), China (Liaoning) (Han & Xue, 2011). Here this species and genus is firstly recorded from Russia.

NOTES. The host plants of the P. superans are different Magnoliaceae (Nakajima, 2011) ,

from which only Magnolia obovata Thunb. is distributed locally on the Kunashir Island.

Family Noctuidae

Figures

Figs. 1–5. Imago of Lepidoptera from the Kunashir Island (coll. S. Rybalkin): 1 ‒ Pa-