Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877

Figs. 17, 68, 107, 138

Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877, Ann. Mag. nat . Hist., (4) 20: 477. Lectotype 3, Japan: Yokohama (BMNH). Oreta calceolaria Butler, 1877, Ann. Mag. nat . Hist., (4) 20: 477. Lectotype 3, Japan: Yokohama (BMNH). Oreta auripes Butler, 1879, Ann. Mag. nat . Hist., (5) 4: 355. Lectotype Ƥ, Japan: Yokohama (BMNH). Oreta thremidora Hampson, 1914, Ann. Mag. nat . Hist., (8) 14: 104. Holotype Ƥ, Japan: Fushiki (BMNH). Oreta pulchripes chosenoreta Bryk, 1949, Ark. Zool., 41A (1): 28. Holotype Ƥ, Korea: Shuotsu (NRM). Psiloreta pulchripes: Inoue, 1956, Check List Lep. Jap., 4: 370.

Oreta pulchripes: Watson, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat . Hist. (Ent.), 19 (3): 164, figs 6–8.

Material examined. KOREA (NRM), Shuotsu, 1935, coll. Sten Bergman, 1Ƥ (Holotype of O. pulchripes chosenoreta Bryk, photograph examined). CHINA, Jilin (IZCAS): Changbaishan, 6.VIII.1974, 13; same locality, 2–3.VII.1982, 33.

Diagnosis. See under O. shania and O. loochooana .

Distribution. China (Jilin), Korea, Japan, Russia (Far East).

Remarks. Material of O. pulchripes from Yunnan and Tibet published in Chu & Wang (1987; 1991) are referrable to O. loochooana .