Eupithecia daemionata Dietze, 1904

Rybalkin, S. A. & Beljaev, E. A., 2023, First data on spring Geometridae (Lepidoptera) on Kuril Islands, Far Eastern Entomologist 482, pp. 22-32 : 29

* Eupithecia daemionata Dietze, 1904

Fig. 8

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 18.V–4.VI 2021, 6 ex., leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Amurskaya Oblast, Khabarovskii Krai, Primorskii Krai, Sakhalin, S Kurils – Kunashir), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima), S Korea, NE China. This species is recorded from Kuril Islands for the first time.

REMARKS. Host plants are unknown.

Figures

Figs 1–9. Moths from Kunashir Island, dorsal view. 1 – Cleora leucophaea (Butler, 1878), ♂; 2 – Myrioblephara cilicornaria (Püngeler, 1903), ♂; 3 – Trichopteryx fastuosa Inoue, 1958; 4 – Trichopteryx terranea (Butler, 1878); 5 – Trichopteryx ussurica (Wehrli, 1927), ♂; 6 – Esakiopteryx volitans (Butler, 1878), ♀; 7 – Eupithecia clavifera Inoue, 1955; 8 – Eupithecia daemionata Dietze, 1904.