Deltote deceptoria Scopoli 1763

• Main Authors: Han, H. L., Kononenko, V. S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Deltote; Deltote deceptoria; Fang; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119667; https://zenodo.org/record/6119667

Deltote deceptoria (Scopoli, 1763) (Figs 4, 14, 20) Phalaena deceptoria Scopoli, 1763, Entomologica Carniolica : 214: 527 (Type-locality: Slovenia, “Carniola, Umg. Idriam”). Synonymy: Phalaena lineodes Hufnagel, 1766; Phalaena atratula [Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775]; Phalaena atratula Hübner, [1800–1803]), nec. Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775. Material examined. 2 males, Honghuarji, Qiqihar, Prov. Heilongjiang, 17.vi. 1987 (S.Y. Fang) [NEFU]; 2 males, 1 female, Russia, Primorye terr., Barabash-Levada, 12–14.vi. 1989 (V. Kononenko) [IBSS]; 1 male, 1 female, Russia, Transbaikalia, Chita reg., Borzja, 30.vi. 1997 (Golovushkin) [HNHM]; Russia, S Ural, Chelyabinsk distr. Miass, Ilmen State res., 13.vi. 1996 (K. Nupponen) [KN]; genitalia prep. male Russia, Primorye, VK 741; female VK 740. Bionomics. Mesophilous species, occurs in open valley forest along rivers, warm glades, wet meadows, among bushes. Bivoltine, flight period from V to VIII in two generations. Larva feeds on Phleum pratense , Poa altaica (Poaceae). Overwinters as pupa. Distribution. Eurasian, subboreal. North China (Provinces Heilongjiang, Xinjiang).—Europe, Russia to Ural, through S Siberia and Transbaikalia, Far East, to Sakhalin and Kuriles. : Published as part of Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2015, A review of the genus Deltote Reichenbah, Leipzig, 1817 with description of a new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Eustrotiinae), pp. 580-587 in Zootaxa 4007 (4) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/235049