Dioryctria sylvestrella ( Ratzeburg, 1840 )

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 367

Dioryctria sylvestrella ( Ratzeburg, 1840) *

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 2 Ƌ, 1 ♀, W env. of Luga, 27.vii.2012; 1 ♀, Olshanik, 6.viii.2012.

REMARKS. The specimens were attracted to light in open and dry places. It is not rare in Luga polygon, where imagoes were found during daytime on grassy hills. I also observed the species in A. Petrovoj ( 29.vii.2012). The locality of the species in Olshanik is the northernmost in the European part of Russia.

DISTRIBUTION. Temperate zone of Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, South Siberia, Russian Far East, Korea, Japan ( Sinev 1986; Karsholt & Razowski 1996; Leraut 2014; Aarvik et al. 2017; Koçak & Kemal 2018; Sinev et al. 2019).