Lomographa simplicior (Butler, 1871)

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

Lomographa simplicior (Butler, 1871)

Material. Yuzhno-Kurilsk, 13– 14.09.2022 — 3♀.

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: SW Sakhalin ( Beljaev, Titova 2023), S Kurils — Kunashir, Shikotan); SW China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima, Tanegashima).

Remarks. In Japan moths appear from the end of August and can be seen until the end of October. Larvae were noted feeding on various arboreous plants from rose family — Malus , Cerasus , Padus , Sorbus ( Rosaceae ), and on Quercus crispula and Quercus acutissima ( Fagaceae ) ( Sato 2011). In Sakhalin moths were collected from the second week of August ( Beljaev, Titova 2023).