Photoscotosia lucicolens (Butler, 1878)

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 : 684

* Photoscotosia lucicolens (Butler, 1878) ( Fig. 1 : B)

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, slope path inside forest, 18– 19.10.2022 — 1♀.

Distribution. Russia (SW Primorskii Kr., S Kurils — Kunashir); NE China (Jilin), S Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima).

Remarks. A new species for the Kuril Islands. Second report of this species from Russia after first record in S Primorskii Kr. ( Beljaev, Knyazev 2021). In Central Japan moths fly twice — from June to July and in October, but on the Kurils they have never been reported at summer. Larvae are probably polyphagous on deciduous trees and shrubs ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011).

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