Meridarchis jumboa Kawabe, 1980

Rybalkin, S. A., Benedek, B. & Dubatolov, V. V., 2022, New for the fauna of Kunashir Island moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Carposinidae, Zygaenidae, Tortricidae, Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae, Lycaenidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 457, pp. 13-32 : 15

* Meridarchis jumboa Kawabe, 1980

Fig. 54

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 18.V–4.VI 2021, 1 ♂, leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Primorskii krai, Sakhalin) (Ponomarenko, 2016), Japan

(Hokkaido, Honshu), Korea (Nasu, 2013a). Here this species is recorded for the first time from the Southern Kuril Islands.

REMARKS. The species is easily recognizable by large triangular dark costal spot and a black dot at dorsal margin on forewings.

Family Zygaenidae

Figures

Figs 49–54. Male genitalia (49-53) of Lepidoptera and micromoth (54) from Kunashir