Published July 30, 2025 | Version v1
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Semioscopis Hubner 1825

  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.

Description

Genus Semioscopis Hübner, [1825]

Semioscopis Hübner, [1825], Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge [sic!]: 402.

Type species: Tortrix steinkellneriana [Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775 (by subsequent designation by Westwood (1840: 111)).

Distribution. Palaearctic: West and East Europe, Russia (European part, West and East Siberia, Far East), South Korea, Japan; Nearctic: Canada, USA.

Host plants. Populus, Salix (Salicaceae), Betula, Carpinus (Betulaceae), Crataegus, Prunus, Sorbus (Rosaceae), Tilia (Malvaceae) (Hodges 1974; Robinson et al. 2023; Lepiforum e. V. 2024).

Species included. The genus includes 13 species of the world fauna: seven Palearctic species and six Nearctic species; four species of them are distributed in East Asia (S. japonicella, S. strigulana, S. similis and S. fareastenica sp. nov.) and the last three species are reliably inhabited in Far East of Russia.

Notes

Published as part of Ponomarenko, Margarita G. & Koshkin, Evgeny S., 2025, New species of the spring flat moths of the genera Semioscopis Hübner and Luquetia Leraut (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) from Far East of Russia with notes on related species, pp. 529-549 in Zootaxa 5666 (4) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/16612084

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hubner
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Elachistidae
Genus
Semioscopis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Semioscopis Hubner, 1825 sec. Ponomarenko & Koshkin, 2025

References

  • Westwood, J. O. (1840) An introduction to the modern classification of insects, founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Vol. 2. Longmans, London, xi + 158 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12455
  • Hodges, R. W. (1974) Gelechioidea, Oecophoridae. Fascicle 6.2. In: Dominick, R. B., Ferguson, D. C., Franclemont, J. G., Hodges, R. W. & Munroe, E. G. (Eds.), The Moths of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey Ltd. and the Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London, 142 pp.
  • Robinson, G. S., Ackery, Ph. R., Kitching, I., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2023) HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. Available from: https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a (accessed 20 January 2025)