Hemistola chrysoprasaria (Esper, 1795)

Makhov, Ilya, 2023, Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the Baikal region: identification keys and annotated catalogue with notes to DNA barcoding. Part 2. Archiearinae, Geometrinae, Sterrhinae, Zootaxa 5294 (1), pp. 1-120 : 30

5. Hemistola chrysoprasaria (Esper, 1795)

(adults Fig. 17B ; male gen. Figs. 34A–34C ; female gen. Fig. 37E )

“ Geometra vernaria L.” [erroneous authorship]: Erschov & Field, 1870: 162.

Geometra vernaria (Hübner, 1789) : Staudinger, 1892: 373; Staudinger & Rebel, 1901: 261; Tomilova & Dubeshko, 1971: 214.

Hemistola chrysoprasaria: Berlov & Berlov, 2006: 103 ; Gordeeva & Gordeev, 2007: 129; 2020: 66; Mironov et al., 2008: 205; Beljaev & Mironov, 2019: 254.

Hemistola immaculata (Thunberg, 1784) : Vasilyeva & Epova, 1987: 65; Vasilyeva, 1989: 105.

Hemistola chrysoprasaria chrysoprasaria: Viidalepp, 1996: 61 .

Material examined. Irkutskaya Oblast: B. Koty, 10.VII.2012, 1 ♀, I. Makhov [ ZIN]. Buryatia: M. Tasarkhay, 7.VII.2016, 2 ♁; Tarbagatay , 13.VII.2018, 1 ♁ (GenBank ID: OK156318 ); same loc., 23.VII.2021, 2 ♁ (GenBank ID: OK314975 ), I. Makhov [ ZIN] .

Distribution. Transpalaearctic, subboreal. In Russia this species inhabits European part of country, Urals, south of Western, Central and Eastern Siberia, S Yakutia, Amurskaya Oblast, southern part of Khabarovsky Kray, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Primorye. Outside Russia: Europe; Turkey, N Africa, Transcaucasia, Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan, E and N Kazakhstan, Mongolia, W, N and NE China.

Hostplants: Clematis , Pulsatilla ( Hausmann 2001) .

Remarks. Viidalepp (1976) mentioned Hemistola immaculata intermedia Djakonov, 1926 as a subspecies of H. chrysoprasaria , however Beljaev (2016) states that interpretation is not justified.

Figures

FIGURE 17. Adults of Siberian Geometrinae. A—Hemistola zimmermanni; B—H. chrysoprasaria; C—Thalera fimbrialis; D—T. chlorosaria.

FIGURE 34. Male genitalia of Siberian Geometrinae. A–C—Hemistola chrysoprasaria; D–F—H. zimmermanni; G, H— Hemithea aestivaria; I–K—Thalera fimbrialis; L–N—T. chlorosaria. A, E, G, I, M—genital segment; B, F, H, J, N—phallos; B, F—vesica everted; K—valva, dorsal view; L—dorso-lateral view of genital segment. Scale bar—1 mm.

FIGURE 37. Female genitalia of Siberian Geometrinae. A—Geometra papilionaria; B—Thetidia chlorophyllaria; C—T. smaragdaria; D—Comibaena amoenaria; E—Hemistola chrysoprasaria; F, G—H. zimmermanni; H—Hemithea aestivaria. Scale bar—1 mm.