Trichopteryx terranea (Butler, 1878)

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 terranea (Butler, 1878)

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MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 21–27.V 2021, 8 ex., leg. S. Rybalkin.

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

REMARKS. In Japan known hostplants of the species is Quercus myrsinifolia ( Fagaceae ), and hatched larvae were fed with Quercus glauca ( Fagaceae ) and Zelkova serrata ( Ulmaceae ) ( Hashimoto, 2021).

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.