Faunistic notes on Lepidoptera collected from arctic tundra

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amderma; Arctic; Kara Sea; Fennoscandian; nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.692.1500; http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/nota/36_2/03_Kozlov.pdf

Abstract. The insect fauna of European arctic tundra is seriously understudied in contrast to the well-documented subarctic Fennoscandian fauna. We report the results of a survey made on Kara Sea coast near Amderma (N 69°46′, E 61°40′) from 18 June to 3 August 2012. This survey yielded 156 specimens of 29 species of Lepidoptera, 16 of which are new for the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Noteworthy is the dis-covery of Gnorimoschema vastificum Braun, 1929, so far known only from North America. Two Holarctic species, Greya variabilis Davis & Pellmyr, 1992 and Udea alaskalis (Gibson, 1920), and four Palaearctic species, Eucosma ommatoptera Falkovitsh, 1965, Pediasia zellerella (Staudinger, 1899), Udea uralica Slamka, 2013 (recently described from the Asiatic slopes of Polar Ural Mts) and Xanthorhoe uralensis Choi, 2003, are for the first time reported from Europe (in the strict geographical sense). The fauna of the surroundings of Amderma is dominated by Holarctic species, most of which are confined to tundra habitats.