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Pyla fusca
Authors/Creators
- 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
Pyla fusca (Haworth, 1811)
(Figs 7a–b)
Material examined: Zhytomyr reg., Korosten distr., NW vic. of Zubkovychi, 23–24.VII.2024, 1♀ V. Yepishin leg. (VYe).
Distribution in Ukraine: Zhytomyr reg.: Ksenzhopolskiy 1915: 4 (Laodamia). Kyiv reg.: Sovinskij 1935: 88 (Salebria); Lebedev 1937: 50 (Salebria). Chernihiv reg.: Smetanin 1981: 108; Govorun et al. 2003: 183, 2004: 35. Sumy reg.: Govorun 2003b: 65, 2018b: 41; Govorun & Ptashenchuk 2023: 27. Lviv reg.: Nowicki 1860: 165 (Pempelia carbonariella); Klemensiewicz 1898: 158 (Pempelia), 1899: 182 (Pempelia); Brunicki 1912: 150 (Salebria). Khmelnytskyi reg.: Chranewytsch 1927: 6 (Salebria). Ivano-Frankivsk reg.: Bidzilya et al. 2006: 32. Chernivtsi reg.: Govorun 2002. Luhansk reg.: Demyanenko 2019: 160 (Matilella). New record from Zhytomyr region in more than a hundred years.
Remarks. The report of this species from Odesa region in Yepishin et al. (2024: 120) belongs to Isauria dilucidella (Duponchel, 1836) due to a misidentification. Thus, Pyla fusca should be excluded from the Pyraloidea list of Odesa region.
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 5-6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17324303
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- V
- Event date
- 2024-07-23
- Verbatim event date
- 2024-07-23/24
- Scientific name authorship
- Haworth
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Pyla
- Species
- fusca
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pyla fusca (Haworth, 1811) sec. Yepishin, Khalaim, Demyanenko, Govorun, Novytskyi & Tsykal, 2025
References
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