Published September 23, 2025 | Version v1
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Epischnia prodromella

  • 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

Epischnia prodromella (Hübner, [1799] 1796b)

Material examined: Odesa reg., Odesa distr., 4–6 km E Hradenytsi, 25.VIII.2012; 11.V.2013, 1♂, 1♀ S. Novytskyi leg. Odesa reg., Izmail distr., vic. of Vylkove, Zhebryianska ridge, 11.VII.2020, 1♂ Ye.Khalaim leg.; 14–15.IX.2021, at light, 1♂ V. Yepishin leg. Odesa reg., Odesa distr., 3 km NW vic. of Roksolany vill., 13–14.IX.2020, at light, 1♀ V. Yepishin leg. and gen. prep. 555.21g. Odesa reg., Rozdilna distr., SE vic. of Trudomyrivka vill., 21.VIII.2021, 1♀ Ye. Khalaim & S. Novytskyi leg. Odesa reg., Rozdilna distr., Yurkivka vill., 12.VIII.2024, 1♂ S. Novytskyi leg. (all VYe).

Distribution in Ukraine: Kharkiv reg.: Karolinskiy et al. 2017: 22. Odesa reg.: Yepishin et al. 2024: 122. Mykolaiv reg.: Obraztsov 1935b: 225. Luhansk reg.: Pak 1998b: 216; Pak & Yaroshenko 2001b: 147; Demyanenko et al. 2018: 258; Demyanenko 2019: 161. Crimea: Ivinskis 1986: 111; Budashkin 1992: 26, 2004: 344, 2006: 275.

Remarks. In the first report of Epischnia prodromella from Odesa region, in Yepishin et al. (2024: 122), an error was made in the layout of the manuscript. The name of this species has disappeared, instead, only the examined material that follows the species Dioryctria simplicella Heinemann, 1865 remained. Therefore, we are additionally publishing this material here, in addition to the new one.

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 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17324303

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