Eupithecia clavifera Inoue, 1955

Rybalkin, S. A. & Beljaev, E. A., 2023, First data on spring Geometridae (Lepidoptera) on Kuril Islands, Far Eastern Entomologist 482, pp. 22-32 : 29

* Eupithecia clavifera Inoue, 1955

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MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 18.V–4.VI 2021, 38 ex., leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: S RFE (S Khabarovskii Krai, Primorskii Krai, S Kurils – Kunashir), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima), S Korea, China (Gansu, Shaanxi, Taiwan).

REMARKS. The larvae are polyphagous on different leaved shrubs and trees, in Japan they recorded on Fabaceae , Fagaceae , Rosaceae , Cornaceae and Caprifoliaceae ( Nakajima & Yazaki, 2011) .

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.