Pelochrista decolorana (Freyer, 1842)

Rybalkin, S. A., Benedek, B. & Dubatolov, V. V., 2022, New for the fauna of Kunashir Island moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Carposinidae, Zygaenidae, Tortricidae, Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae, Lycaenidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 457, pp. 13-32 : 22

* Pelochrista decolorana (Freyer, 1842)

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island, Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Nature Reserve “Kurilsky”

administration territory, by light, 31.VII–1.VIII 2019, 1 ♂, leg. V. Dubatolov .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (S. Amur Region, S. Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai; European Russia, Crimea, Caucasus, W. Siberia, Tuva, S. Yakutia (Sinev et al., 2019)), Middle

Europe, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido) (Kuznetzov,

2001; Nasu, 2013b). Here this species is recorded for the first time from the Southern Kuril

Islands.

REMARKS. The specimen has much darker wing coloration than continental ones.

Family Geometridae