Pterotopteryx spilodesma

• Main Authors: Titova, Olga, Ustjuzhanin, Peter, Kovtunovich, Vasiliy, Streltzov, Alexander
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Alucitidae; Pterotopteryx; Pterotopteryx spilodesma; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12808108; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F54F23FFBFFF801CC3686856EFFE4E

Pterotopteryx spilodesma (Meyrick, 1908) Figs 1, 2 Orneodes spilodesma Meyrick, 1908: 508. Type locality: Assam, India. Orneodes ochracea Marumo, 1923: 197. Type locality: Japan. Orneodes isshikii Matsumura, 1931: No. 2086. Type locality: Japan. Material examined. Russia : Sakhalin Island, vicinity of Kholmsk, 47.028 N, 142.037 E, at light trap, 25.IX 2017, 1 ♀, leg. О.L. Titova Distribution. India (Assam), Philippines, China (Taiwan), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tanegashima, Yakushima); Russia (Southern Primorye, Southern Sakhalin, Shikotan Island). Remarks. The caterpillars live on the Lonicera L. (Caprifoliaceae), there are at least five species of them on Sakhalin (Voroshilov, 1982); in Japan they feed on L. japonica Thunb. (Inoue, 1982). On Sakhalin there are two Alucitidae species, one of them is more common: Pterotopteryx eumorphodactyla (Caradja, 1920) and the other is more rare, currently known only by one specimen from south-western coast of the island, Pterotopteryx spilodesma (Meyrick, 1908). Published as part of Titova, Olga, Ustjuzhanin, Peter, Kovtunovich, Vasiliy & Streltzov, Alexander, 2020, First reliable record of many-plumed moth Pterotopteryx spilodesma (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) on Sakhalin Island, pp. 23-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 28 on pages 23-24, DOI:10.37828/em.2020.28.5, http://zenodo.org/record/12808104