Phycitodes lacteella (Rothschild, 1915)

Yepishin, Viktor, Khalaim, Yevhenii, Demyanenko, Serhii, Govorun, Oleksandr, Novytskyi, Sergiy & Tsykal, Serhii, 2025, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine, Zootaxa 5696 (1), pp. 1-27 : 13-14

Phycitodes lacteella (Rothschild, 1915)

( Figs 23–24 )

Material examined: Zaporizhzhia reg., Melitopol distr., Bohatyr [Altahyr] vill. , 21.VII, 24.VII and 30.VII.2000, 3♂ 1♀ V. Getmanchuk leg.; gen. prep. ♂855.25s, ♀861.25s, ♂862.25s, ♂863.25g V. Yepishin . Zaporizhzhia reg., Polohy distr., Kamiani Mohyly Reserve , 3–4.VIII.2018, 1♀ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 447.20g O. Bidzilya . Zaporizhzhia reg., Zaporizhzhia city, Khortytsia Island, Balka [Arroyo] Savutina , 15.VIII.2018, 1♂ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 264/18s O. Bidzilya. (all VYe) .

Distribution in Ukraine: Kyiv reg.: Yepishin et al. 2021b: 374. Chernihiv reg.: Govorun et al. 2003: 184, 2004: 35; Panasyura & Govorun 2012: 30. Sumy reg.: Govorun 2003a: 51, 2003b: 65, 2008a: 42, 2009: 114, 2018a: 8, 2018b: 42; Govorun & Latyshev 2014: 9; Govorun & Ptashenchuk 2023: 28; Govorun et al. 2023: 357, 2024b: 76. Cherkasy reg.: Govorun 2003c: 199. Poltava reg.: Govorun 2009: 114. Kharkiv reg.: Guglya & Karolinskiy 2014: 19; Karolinskiy et al. 2018: 80. Ivano-Frankivsk reg.: Bidzilya et al. 2006: 32. Odesa reg.: Yepishin et al. 2024: 125. Mykolaiv reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Kherson reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Luhansk reg.: Bidzilya 1995: 37; Pak 1998b: 216; Demyanenko 2019: 162, 2022: 20. Crimea: Budashkin 1992: 27, 2004: 345, 2006: 276; Guglya 2014: 218. First record from Zaporizhzhia region.

Remarks. In Ukraine, especially in its South-Eastern regions, non-typical forms of this species are found, whose forewing pattern can range from completely white to very melanistic, even black, in contrast to the creamywhite colour of typical forms ( Figs 23–24 ).

Figures

FIGURES 23–24. Phycitodes lacteella: 23. Male, 855.25s, wingspan 14 mm, Bohatyr. 24. Female, 447.20g, wingspan 16.3 mm, Kamiani Mohyly Reserve.