Abraxas niphonibia Wehrli 1935 ...

• Main Authors: Beljaev, Еvgeniy A., Titova, Olga L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Abraxas; Abraxas niphonibia; Pacific; Titova; Yaku; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10247944; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10247944

Abraxas niphonibia Wehrli (Figs 15a, 15b, 58) cf. Abraxas satoi, nec Inoue: iBOL 2016: GBIF occurrence 1415518380 (Moneron). Material examined. 1 ♀, Moneron, 26.VII.2021. Distribution. Russia (S RFE: * Moneron, Kunashir; S Khabarovskii Krai, S Amurskaya Oblast, Primorskii Krai), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yaku, Oshima, Okinawa), North Korea, South Korea, NE China;?SW China (Sichuan, A. niphonibia wassuensis Wehrli). Remarks. The finding of A. niphonibia in Moneron extends its general range to the north along the Pacific islands. The examined specimen possesses uncharacteristic broad and dark spots on the wings, but its genitalia (Fig. 58) indicate its belonging to A. niphonibia, despite of some pathological deformation in the sternal area. The discussed female quite matches to the photo of a moth from Moneron in BOLD, identified as “ Abraxas AH 01Ru” (Sample ID: GWOSC549-10, labelled as: “ Russia, 46.237 N, 141.228 E, 26.VII.2009, Saldaitis leg.”; also, in the GBIF as “BOLD: AAF2823 ... : 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 page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10147411 ...