Published September 23, 2025 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Phycitodes lacteella

  • 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

Phycitodes lacteella (Rothschild, 1915)

(Figs 23–24)

Material examined: Zaporizhzhia reg., Melitopol distr., Bohatyr [Altahyr] vill., 21.VII, 24.VII and 30.VII.2000, 3♂ 1♀ V. Getmanchuk leg.; gen. prep. ♂855.25s, ♀861.25s, ♂862.25s, ♂863.25g V. Yepishin. Zaporizhzhia reg., Polohy distr., Kamiani Mohyly Reserve, 3–4.VIII.2018, 1♀ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 447.20g O. Bidzilya. Zaporizhzhia reg., Zaporizhzhia city, Khortytsia Island, Balka [Arroyo] Savutina, 15.VIII.2018, 1♂ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 264/18s O. Bidzilya. (all VYe).

Distribution in Ukraine: Kyiv reg.: Yepishin et al. 2021b: 374. Chernihiv reg.: Govorun et al. 2003: 184, 2004: 35; Panasyura & Govorun 2012: 30. Sumy reg.: Govorun 2003a: 51, 2003b: 65, 2008a: 42, 2009: 114, 2018a: 8, 2018b: 42; Govorun & Latyshev 2014: 9; Govorun & Ptashenchuk 2023: 28; Govorun et al. 2023: 357, 2024b: 76. Cherkasy reg.: Govorun 2003c: 199. Poltava reg.: Govorun 2009: 114. Kharkiv reg.: Guglya & Karolinskiy 2014: 19; Karolinskiy et al. 2018: 80. Ivano-Frankivsk reg.: Bidzilya et al. 2006: 32. Odesa reg.: Yepishin et al. 2024: 125. Mykolaiv reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Kherson reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Luhansk reg.: Bidzilya 1995: 37; Pak 1998b: 216; Demyanenko 2019: 162, 2022: 20. Crimea: Budashkin 1992: 27, 2004: 345, 2006: 276; Guglya 2014: 218. First record from Zaporizhzhia region.

Remarks. In Ukraine, especially in its South-Eastern regions, non-typical forms of this species are found, whose forewing pattern can range from completely white to very melanistic, even black, in contrast to the creamywhite colour of typical forms (Figs 23–24).

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 pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17324303

Files

Files (2.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:a19d3a7e526ec543daa48296b58b7a60
2.2 kB Download

System files (20.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:6cf8630e69dcb54ae22c854246bfc284
20.5 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

References

  • Yepishin, V., Khalaim, Ye., Budashkin, Yu., Zhakov, O., Mushynskyi, V. & Novytskyi, S. (2021 b) New records of pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine. Zootaxa, 5023 (3), 366-388. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5023.3.3
  • Govorun, O. V., Sheshurak, P. N. & Kolesnyk, O. A. (2003) Subfamily Phycitinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Chernigiv region of Ukraine. In: Pashchenko, V. O. (Ed.), Materials of the All-Ukrainian Student Scientific and Practical Conference " Academician V. I. Vernadsky and the world in the third millennium ". TOV " ASMI ", Poltava, pp. 183-184. [in Ukrainian]
  • Panasyura, I. M. & Govorun, O. V. (2012) The results of study of Pyralid moths of fauna (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Talalayevsky district of the Chernihiv region. In: Lebid, Ye. O. (Ed.), Collection of scientific papers " The Natural Sciences ". Issue 9. SumDPU im. A. S. Makarenka, Sumy, pp. 29-32. [in Ukrainian]
  • Govorun, [O.] A. V. & Latyshev, V. S. (2014) The Сaddisflies (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the territories NPP Getmanskyj. Prirodnici nauki, 11, 8-10. [in Ukrainian, abstract in English]
  • Govorun, O. V. & Ptashenchuk, O. O. (2023) Lepidoptera of the Mykhailivska Tsilyna Nature Reserve. Ukrainian Journal of Natural Sciences, 3, 24-38. [in Ukrainian, abstract in English] https://doi.org/10.32782/naturaljournal.3.2023.24-38
  • Govorun, O. V. (2003 c) Results of research of the fauna of Pyralid moths (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Kaniv Nature Reserve. Conference materials: The role of nature protected areas in maintaining biodiversity, dedicated to the 80 th anniversary of the Kaniv Nature Reserve, Kaniv, 2003, pp. 199-200. [in Ukrainian]
  • Govorun, O. V. (2009) New and little known pyralid moths (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from the territory of the north-east of Ukraine. In: Serebriakov, V. V. (Ed.), Zoological science at modern society. Materials of All-Ukrainian scientific conference, dedicated 175 th anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Zoology. Fitosotsiotsentr, Kyiv, pp. 113-117. [in Ukrainian]
  • Bidzilya, O., Budashkin, [Yu.] Ju., Kljuchko, Z., Kostjuk, I. & Kullberg, J. (2006) A contribution to the knowledge of Lepidoptera of the south-eastern part of the Ukrainian Karpathian. Proceedings of Zoological Museum of Kiev Taras Shevchenko National University, 4, 21-52. [in Ukrainian]
  • Govorun, [O.] A. V. (2008 b) The results of the study of the fauna of Pyralid moths (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve. Nature Conservation in Ukraine, 14 (1), 51-52. [in Russian]
  • Pak, O. V. (1998 b) Materials for the Lepidoptera fauna of the " Streltsovskaya Steppe " plot of the Lugansk Reserve. In: Chornyi, M. G. (Ed. in Chief), Materials of the scientific conference: " Role of protected areas in saving biodiversity " dedicated to the 75 th anniversary of the Kaniv Nature Reserve, Kaniv, 1998, pp. 215-216. [in Russian]
  • 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]
  • Budashkin, Yu. I. (2004) The results of a twenty-year stationary study of the lepidopteran fauna of the Karadag natural reserve. In: Collection of scientific papers: Karadag. History, geology, botany, zoology, dedicated to the 90 - th anniversary of the T. I. Vyazemsky Karadag biological station and to the 25 - th anniversary of the Karadag Nature Reserve of the NAS of Ukraine. Book 1. Sonat, Simferopol, pp. 323-366. [in Russian]