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.