Martania fulvida (Butler, 1881)

Beljaev, Evgeniy A., Vasilenko, Sergey V., Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Zinchenko, Vadim K., 2023, First data on autumn Geometridae (Lepidoptera) on the Kuril Islands, Amurian Zoological Journal XV (3), pp. 679-690 : 687

** Martania fulvida (Butler, 1881)

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Material. Danilovskii Cordon, 21– 22.09.2022 — 1♀; ibid, 22– 23.09.2022 — 1♀ ; ibid, 7– 8.10.2022 — 1♀ .

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S Kurils — Kunashir); Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu).

Remarks. A new species for the fauna of Russia. All earlier indications, including those in Japanese literature ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011: 288), are based on the erroneous identification of Martania saxea (Wileman, 1911) (see Vasilenko, Beljaev 2011; Beljaev 2016). Trophic relationships of larvae are not known. Nakajima, Yazaki (2011: 288) report that the moths around Kanto region appear twice a year, in May–June and September–October, and in the alpine zone, they appear in July–August and occur once a year. According to Sayama et al. (2012: 25), moths were collected in Central Hokkaido in beginning of July and in beginning of September. On Kunashir, the island nearest to Hokkaido, the moths were collected in the end of September and in the beginning October, and they have never been registered at summer time. Possibly, the specimens collected on Hokkaido in July belong to another species.

Figures

Fig. 1. New geometrid moths (Geomtridae) from Kunashir Island: A — Ramobia mediodivisa, female; B — Photoscotosia lucicolens, female; C — Pennithera comis, female; D — Venusia phasma, female; E — Martania fulvida, female. The scale bar — 10 mm