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Pasiphila excisa

Description

Pasiphila excisa (Butler, 1878)

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, 22– 23.10.2023 – 2♂, 26– 27.10.2023 – VO, 27– 28.10.2023 – VO, ibid., alder forest, 23– 24.10.2023 – 1♂, 1♀; ibid., plateau, mixed forest, on grass, 28– 29.10.2023 (Zinchenko) – 1♂; Andreevskii Cordon, 1– 2.11.2023 – 1♂; ibid., ridge, birch forest, in bottle, 23– 24.10.2023 – 1 ind.

Distribution. Russia (S RFE:SE Khabarovsk Kr., Primorsky Kr., S Sakhalin, S Kurils — Ku - nashir); South Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Izu Islands, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima).

Remarks. On Kunashir, P. excisa is occasionally observed from the second half of May (Rybalkin, Beljaev 2023) to early November. In Japan, the species is common in various regions from May to October, and develops in two or three generations per year. The larvae are known to develop on flowers of various Ericaceae, as well as on Quercus glauca (Fagaceae) and Euonymus japonicus (Celastraceae) (Nakajima, Yazaki 2011).

Notes

Published as part of Beljaev, Evgeniy A., Vasilenko, Sergey V., Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Zinchenko, Vadim K., 2024, First report on late autumn geometer moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Kunashir Island, Russia (Southern Kurils), pp. 979-995 in Amurian Zoological Journal XVI (4) on page 991, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-4-979-995, http://zenodo.org/record/16965790

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2023-10-24 , 2023-10-29
Verbatim event date
2023-10-24/28
Scientific name authorship
Butler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Pasiphila
Species
excisa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pasiphila excisa (Butler, 1878) sec. Beljaev, Vasilenko, Dubatolov & Zinchenko, 2024

References

  • Rybalkin, S. A., Beljaev, E. A. (2023) Pervye svedeniya o vesennikh pyadenitsakh (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) ostrova Kunashir, Yuzhnye Kurily [First data on the spring geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of Kunashir Island, South Kuriles]. Dal'nevostochnyj entomolog - Far Eastern Entomologist, no. 482, pp. 22-32. https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.482.3 (In English)
  • Nakajima, H., Yazaki, K. (2011) Larentiinae. In: Y. Kishida (ed.). The standard of moths in Japan 1. Callidulidae, Epicopeiidae, Drepanidae, Uraniidae, Geometridae, Lasiocampidae, Bombycidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae. Tokyo: Gakken Educational Publ., pp. 68 - 84, 248-316. (In Japanese)