Pennithera comis (Butler, 1879)

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 : 685

* Pennithera comis (Butler, 1879)

( Fig. 1 : C)

Material. Danilovskii Cordon, at light, 20– 21.09.2022 — 1♀; ibid, 7.10.2022 — 1♀ ; Andreevskii Cordon, at light, 29.09.2022 — 1♂; ibid, 1.10.2022 — 1♀ ; ibid, at scented baits, 1.10.2022 — 1♀ ; ibid, 5.10.2022 — 1♀ ; ibid, 6– 7.10.2022 — 1♂ ; ibid, 22.10.2022 — 1♂ .

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S Khabarovskii Kr., Primorskii Kr., S Sakhalin, S Kurils – Kunashir);?SW China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima).

Remarks. A new species for Kunashir and the Kuril Islands. This is an autumn species, flying in Japan from August to November ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011). Host plants of larvae are various Abies ( Pinaceae ). Distribution of this species in SW China needs to be confirmed.

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