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).