Paranthrenopsis editha (Butler, 1878)

Tinthia editha Butler, 1878: 61, pl. XL, fig. 9 (“ Tinthia editha, n. sp. ”). Type locality: “Yokohama (Jonas)” [= Japan, Honshu: Yokohama]. Lectotype: female (BMNH); designated by Špatenka (1992).

Paranthrenopsis harmandi Le Cerf, 1911: 302, pl. V, fig. 4 (“ P.[aranthrenopsis] Harmandi nov. sp. ”). Type locality: “... Japon, Nippon moyen, environs de Tokio (1906)...” [= Japan, Honshu: environs of Tokyo]. Holotype: male (should be in MHNP, but I did not find it there; possibly lost during examination by C. Naumann). Synonymised by Hampson, 1919: 119.

Literature. Matsumura, 1905: 188 ( Tinthia Walker, 1865); Bartel, 1912: 413, pl. 52, row f ( Tinthia); Hampson, 1919: 119 ( Zenodoxus); Dalla Torre & Strand, 1925: 181 ( Zenodoxus); Matsumura, 1931a: 1017 ( Zenodoxus); Kawada, 1950: 556, fig. 1532 ( Zenodoxus); Inoue, 1954: 46 ( Trichocerota Hampson, 1893); Shirozu, 1959: 229, pl. 164, fig. 5 ( Zenodoxus); Yano, 1960: 230 (key), 231, figs 1A, 1B ( Zenodoxus); Naumann, 1971: 52, Abb. 14, 53, 94, 132, 168, 213; Heppner & Duckworth, 1981: 22; Inoue, 1982: 238, pl. 4, figs 42, 43, pl. 296, fig. 21; Kozlov, 1989: 45, figs 1a, 2; Špatenka, 1992: 498; Špatenka et al., 1993: 85; Arita, 1994: 69, figs 4a, 4b; Gorbunov & Tshistjakov, 1995: 3; Špatenka et al., 1996: 3; Kozlov et al., 1998: 247, 248; Gorbunov, 1998: 455; Gorbunov & Tshistjakov, 1999: 294, figs 172–1–4, 177–1; Špatenka et al., 1999: 44, pl. 2, figs 16, 17, text figs 20, 286; Arita & Ikeda, 2000: 104, pl. [4], figs 1–6; Kallies & Arita, 2001: 195; Arita et al., 2004: 4, fig. 2; Pühringer & Kallies, 2004: 6; Gorbunov, 2008: 110; Jin et al., 2008: 524; Kudo & Kudo, 2014; Tshistjakov, 2016: 214; Gorbunov, 2019: 158; Arita et al., 2021b: 7, 50, figs 5a–c; Pühringer & Kallies, 2021.

Flight period. Adults occur from mid-July to mid-August.

Distribution. Japan (Tsushima, Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu) and the Russian Far East (Primorskiy Territory). The records of this species from the provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian in China (Špatenka et al., 1999: 45, map) need confirmation.