Euplexidia angusta Yoshimoto, 1987

Koshkin, E. S., Benedek, B. & Golovizin, V. A., 2021, New for the Russian fauna species of the families Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera), Far Eastern Entomologist 427, pp. 25-28 : 26-27

Euplexidia angusta Yoshimoto, 1987

Figs 3, 6

Euplexidia angusta Yoshimoto, 1987: 97 (type locality: Japan, Kyushu , Fukuoka, Mt.

Hikosan).

MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii krai, Shkotovo District, Anisimovka village, 43°10' N ,

132°48' E, 29. VI 2019, 1♂, leg. V . Golovizin [ EK].

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (new record): Primorskii krai. – South Korea; Japan: Hokkaido,

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Ryukyu, Tsushima, and Yakushima Islands; Taiwan (Inoue et al.,

1982; Yoshimoto, 1987; Kononenko et al., 1998; Eda & Shikata, 2011).

REMARKS. The genus Euplexidia Hampson, 1896 consists of 21 species from Southeast

Asia (Gyulai & Saldaitis, 2014). A single species, E. angusta , formerly identified as Euplexia literata (Moore, 1882) by Inoue et al. (1982), is distributed in South Korea and Japan. A specimen collected in the southern part of Primorskii krai is most likely a migrant and could have flown with winds from the southern part of the Sea of Japan basin.

(Walker, 1859), female from Primorskii krai; 2, 5 – Orthosia aoyamensis (Matsumura,

1926), male from Sakhalin Island; 3, 6 – Euplexidia angusta Yoshimoto, 1987 , male from

Primorskii krai.

Figures

Figs 1–6. Habitus (1–3) and genitalia (4–6) of Noctuid moths. 1, 4 – Bertula spacoalis