Platycerota incertaria ...

• Main Authors: Beljaev, Еvgeniy A., Titova, Olga L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Platycerota; Platycerota incertaria; Leech; Rugosa; Titova; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10247928; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10247928

Platycerota incertaria (Leech) (Fig. 7) Synegia omissa, nec (Warren): Matsumura 1925: 175 (Ichinosawa). Crypsicometa incertaria: Sato 2001b: 142; Kurina 2022a: GBIF occurrences 3023175784 (Gornozabodsk), 3023177809 (Tymovskoe). Material examined. 1 ♂, Pionery, 18.VII.2015; S Kholmsk, 1 ♀, 10.VII. 2022; 12 ♂, 4 ♀, Sokhonda mount., 20, 23, 26.VII.2019. Distribution. Russia (S RFE: S and central Sakhalin, S Kurils—Iturup and Kunashir), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima),?SW China. Remarks. The host plants of P. incertaria in Japan are various species of Ilex (Aquifoliaceae). In Sakhalin the moths fly from mid-July to mid-August. The observed moths were strictly associated with the Ilex rugosa thickets in the fern spruce-fir forest. They are almost not attracted to a lamp light, and were caught mainly at the day-time with a net, scaring them out of the thicket of I. rugosa. It is a rare species in collections from Sakhalin. For the island it was previously reported by Matsumura (1925, as “ ... : Published as part of Beljaev, Еvgeniy A. & Titova, Olga L., 2023, New data on geometroid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Uraniidae and Geometridae) from Sakhalin and Moneron islands with notes on their taxonomy distribution and ecology, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 5369 (1) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10147411 ...