Trichopteryx ussurica (Wehrli, 1927)

Rybalkin, S. A. & Beljaev, E. A., 2023, First data on spring Geometridae (Lepidoptera) on Kuril Islands, Far Eastern Entomologist 482, pp. 22-32 : 27

* Trichopteryx ussurica (Wehrli, 1927)

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MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 20.V 2021, 1 ♂, leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (S Khabarovskii Krai, Primorskii Krai), Korea, Japan ( Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima). Here this species is recorded for the first time from the Kuril Island.

REMARKS. In Japan known hostplants of the larvae is Ligustrum obtusifolium ( Oleaceae ) ( Hashimoto, 2021). This plant species absents in the Russian Far East but Ligustrum tschonoskii (= L. yezoense ) is known from Kurils and Sakhalin. Also, Syringa reticulata ( Oleaceae ) (in Khabarovskii Krai Primorskii Krai and S Kurils) from related genus could be hostplant for T. ussurica .

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.