Colotois pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761)

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 : 681

* Colotois pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761)

Material. Andreevskii Сordon, 14.10.2022 — 27♂, 7♀ ; ibid, 16.10.2022 — 2♂ ; at light, 16– 17.10.2022 — 1♂; ibid, 17– 18.10.2022 — 3♂ ; ibid, 18– 19.10.2022 — 2♂ ; ibid, 19.10.2022 — 3♂ ; ibid, 19– 20.10.2022 — 3♂ ; ibid, 20.10.2022 — 4♂, 3♀ ; ibid, forest, 20– 21.10.2022 — 8♂ ; ibid, 21– 22.10.2022 — 4♂, 7♀ ; ibid, forest, 21– 22.10.2022 — 2♂ ; ibid, 22– 23.10.2022 — 27♂, 10♀ ; ibid, forest with oaks on slope, in light trap, 23.10.2022 — 1♀ ; ibid, 23– 24.10.2022 — 5♀ + VO ; ibid, 24– 25.10.2022 — 2♀ ; ibid, 25.10.2022 — VO ; forest across the Andreevka River , 21– 22.10.2022 — 4♂, 1♀ .

Distribution. Russia (European part, Crimea, Urals, S RFE: Amurskaya Obl., S Khabarovskii Kr., Primorskii Kr., Sakhalin, S Kurils — Kunashir); Europe, N Africa, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, NE China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), N America (introduced?).

Remarks. A new species for the Kuril Islands, when it is represented by the East Asian subspecies C. p. ussuriensis O. Bang-Haas, 1927. This is an autumn species, in Japan it appears from the end of August and can be seen until the end of October ( Sato 2011), but on Kunashir it began to fly only at middle October. Larvae are polyphagous, feed on various arboreous leaved plants.