Published September 23, 2025 | Version v1
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Tsaraphycis mimeticella Phycitinae

  • 1. Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37, Academician Lebediev St., 03143, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2. Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park, 2, Partyzanska St., 68100, Tatarbunary, Odesa region, Ukraine
  • 3. Independent researcher, Member of the Ukrainian Entomological Society, Dnipro, Ukraine
  • 4. Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, 87, Romenska St., 40002, Sumy, Ukraine
  • 5. Independent researcher, Hradenytsi, Odesa region, Ukraine.
  • 6. Independent researcher, Kyiv, Ukraine

Description

Tsaraphycis mimeticella (Staudinger, 1879)

(Figs 8a–d)

Material examined: Luhansk reg., Starobilsk distr., between Novobila vill. & Trembacheve vill., 11.VI.2021, 1♂ S. Tsykal leg. (ST).

Distribution in Ukraine: Crimea: Budashkin 1992: 25 (Adelosemia incredibilis [misident.]), 2004: 344 (Megasis), 2006: 275 (Megasis). First record from continental Ukraine.

Remarks. In Ukraine, known to this day from Crimea, this species was collected in a single male specimen (Figs 8a–b) in the steppes of Luhansk region within the Bilenka River gully, characterized by limestone outcrops. The male antennae are characterized by the absence of a sinus and the presence of a row of setae from the anterior edge, whose height is half the thickness of the flagellum (Figs 8c–d).

Notes

Published as part of Yepishin, Viktor, Khalaim, Yevhenii, Demyanenko, Serhii, Govorun, Oleksandr, Novytskyi, Sergiy & Tsykal, Serhii, 2025, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 5696 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17324303

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References

  • Staudinger, O. (1879 - 1880) Lepidopteren-Fauna Kleinasien's (Fortsetzung). Horae Societatis entomologicae Rossicae, 15, 159-368 (1879) + 369 - 435 (1880). [in German]
  • Budashkin, Yu. I. (1992) Pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea) of the Karadag Reserve (Crimea). Interdepartmental Scientific Collection Problems of General and Molecular Biology, 10, 23-33. [in Ukrainian]