New records of geometrid moths of the subfamily Larentinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from the Amurskaya Oblast, Russian Far East

• Main Authors: Kuzmin, Aleksandr, Beljaev, Evgeniy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Palaearctic; biodiversity; border; Euro-Siberian zoogeographic subregion; East Asian zoogeographic subregion; mixed broadleaved; Korean pine forests; Geometridae; Larentinae; Sibirica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7710428

An annotated list of 12 species of geometrid moths of the subfamily Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) found for the first time on the territory of Amurskaya Oblast, the Russian Far East, is given. There are: Brabira artemidora (Oberthür, 1884), Acasis bellaria (Leech, 1891), Trichopteryx polycommata ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775), Idiotephria debilitata (Leech, 1891), Idiotephria evanescens (Staudinger, 1897), Thera variata ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), Ecliptopera umbrosaria (Motschulsky, 1861), Triphosa dubitata (Linnaeus, 1758), Triphosa sericata (Butler, 1879), Operophtera relegata Prout, 1908, Hydrelia parvulata (Staudinger, 1897), and Venusia semistrigata (Christoph, 1881). From them, for 9 East Asian species these finds strongly expand to north-west their previously known areas. The first author expresses sincere gratitude to Nikolai Anisimov (All-Russian Research Institute of Soybeans, Blagoveshchensk) for his help in the expeditions and in the collecting of material