Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879

Koshkin, E. S. & Golovizin, V. A., 2022, New records of tropical and subtropical noctuoid moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae) from Primorsky krai, Russia, Far Eastern Entomologist 456, pp. 12-16 : 14-15

Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879

Figs 4–6

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Primorsky krai, Khasan District, 5 km NW Zanadvorovka village, near bridge over Gryaznaya River , 43°20'48" N, 131°35'10" E, 90 m, 9.IX

2021, 1 ♀, leg. V. Golovizin [EK] .

km NW Zanadvorovka). 1–3 – Hypospila bolinoides Guenée, 1852 , female; 4–6 – Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879 , female. 1, 4 – upperside; 2, 5 – underside.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (new record): Primorsky krai; Japan: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu,

Tsushima, Okinawa; South Korea (Cheju); China: Hunan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Jiangxi,

Hainan, Xizang; Nepal; India; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; Malaysia; Indonesia;

the Philippines; New Guinea (Inoue et al., 1982; Kononenko et al., 1998; Kononenko &

Pinratana, 2005; Kendrick et al., 2004).

REMARKS. The genus Lacera Guenée, 1852 and the species L. procellosa are reported from Russia for the first time. L. procellosa is similar with L. noctilio (Fabricius, 1794),

differing from it by a weakly expressed reniform spot and a light falcate area along the outer margin of the forewing, crossed by a dark transverse spot at the end of the M3 vein. L. noctilio is another tropical migrant reaching in the north to South Japan. The host plants of L. procellosa are Caesalpinia and Gleditsia species (Fabaceae) (Holloway, 2005). The northernmost resident populations of L. procellosa probably inhabit Southern Japan and Eastern China. It is a migrant species in the Primorsky krai of Russia and in the Korean Peninsula.

Family Nolidae

Subfamily Chloephorinae

Figures

Figs 1–6. Habitus (1, 2, 4, 5) and genitalia (3, 6) of Erebid moths from Primorsky krai (5