Eilicrinia wehrlii Djakonov, 1933

Beljaev, Еvgeniy A. & Titova, Olga L., 2023, New data on geometroid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Uraniidae and Geometridae) from Sakhalin and Moneron islands with notes on their taxonomy distribution and ecology, Zootaxa 5369 (1), pp. 1-41 : 8

Eilicrinia wehrlii Djakonov

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Eilicrinia wehrlii : Beljaev 2016: 524 (Sakhalin).

Eilicrinia nuptaria , nec Bremer: Viidalepp 1979: 795 (Sakhalin); Viidalepp 1996: 69 (Sakhalin?).

Material examined. 1 ♂, “ Saghalien , Konuma [Novoaleksandrovsk], 28.V.1929, leg. K. Tamanuki ”; 1 ♂ “ Chertov most”, 2.VI.2015 ; 1 ♀, Kholmsk , downtown area, 13.VII.2015 ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, S Kholmsk : 07.VI.2017 , 2, 3.VII.2017, 27, 30.VI.2017.

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S Sakhalin, S Kurils—Kunashir, S Khabarovskii Krai, S Amurskaya Oblast, Primorskii Krai), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), North Korea, South Korea, NE China.

Remarks. The host plants of E. wehrli are various species of Ulmus ( Ulmaceae ), of which Ulmus davidiana subsp. japonica is widespread in S Sakhalin. The moths occurred from late May to mid-July. The finding of E. wehrlii in Sakhalin significantly expand its general distribution range to the northeast. The reports of similar continental species E. nuptaria from Sakhalin are probably based on an erroneous identification of E. wehrlii .

Figures

FIGURES 2–21. Epipleminae, Ennominae, Desmobathrinae and Geometrinae from Sakhalin. 2—Dysaethria illotata, ♀, S Kholmsk; 3—D. moza, ♀, Sokhonda mount.; 4—Eversmannia exornata, ♀, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; 5—Eilicrinia wehrlii, ♂, “Chertov most”, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 6—Lomographa simplicior, ♂, Sokhonda mount.; 7—Platycerota incertaria, ♂, Pionery, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 8—Aethalura ignobilis, ♀, S Kholmsk; 9—Gigantalcis flavolinearia, ♂, S Kholmsk; 10—Pachyerannis obliquaria ♂, central Kholmsk, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 11—Cusiala stipitaria, ♂, S Kholmsk; 12—Larerannis orthogrammaria, ♂, S Kholmsk; 13—Lassaba nikkonis, ♀, S Kholmsk; 14— Zanclidia testacea, ♀, Sokhonda mount.; 15—Abraxas niphonibia, ♀, Moneron (a—upper side; b—underside); 16—Macaria continuaria, ♂, Nysh; 17–18—Alsophila japonensis, S Kholmsk: 17—♂, 18—♀, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 18—Inurois asahinai, S Kholmsk; 20—Geometra dieckmanni, ♀, S Kholmsk; 21—Comibaena amoenaria, ♂, S Kholmsk. Scale—10 mm.