Epirrita autumnata (Borkhausen, 1794)

Beljaev, Evgeniy A., Vasilenko, Sergey V., Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Zinchenko, Vadim K., 2023, First data on autumn Geometridae (Lepidoptera) on the Kuril Islands, Amurian Zoological Journal XV (3), pp. 679-690 : 686

* Epirrita autumnata (Borkhausen, 1794)

Material. Andreevskii Cordon, 14.10.2022 — 4♂, 1♀; ibid, 16– 17.10.2022 — 3♂ ; ibid, 17– 18.10.2022 — 2♂ ; ibid, 20– 21.10.2022 — 12♂ ; ibid, 21– 22.10.2022 — 30♂, 5♀ ; ibid, 22– 23.10.2022 — 7♂, 2♀ ; ibid, 23– 24.10.2022 — 19♂ ; ibid, 24.10.2022 — 3♂ ; ibid, 24– 25.10.2022 — 4♂ ; 2 ibid, 5.10.2022 — 1♂ ; ibid, at scented baits: 20.10.2022 — 4♂ , 21– 22.10.2022 — 3♂, 1♀, 22– 23.10.2022 — 1♂; Andreevskii Cordon , forest on slope, 20– 21.10.2022 — 8♂ ; ibid, 22– 23.10.2022 — 5♂, 1♀ ; ibid, forest across the Andreevka River , 21– 22.10.2022 — 3♂, 1♀ ; ibid, 24– 25.10.2022 — 5♂ ; Andreevskii Cordon , forest, 21– 22.10.2022 — 2♂ ; ibid, 22– 23.10.2022 — 1♂, 2♀ ; ibid 23– 24.10.2022 — 15♂, 3♀ ; ibid, 23– 24.10.2022 — 2♂ ; ibid, forest with oaks, in light-trap, 18.10.2022 — 1♂ ; ibid, 23.10.2022 — 18♂ .

Distribution. Russia (European part, N Caucasus, Urals, W Siberia, S Siberia, Jakutia, RFE: Magadanskaya Obl., Kamchatskii Kr., Amurskaya Obl., JAO, Khabarovskii Kr., Primorskii Kr., Sakhalin, S Kurils — Urup and Iturup); Europe, Turkey, Transcaucasia, N Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China (E Inner Mongolia), Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu),?N America.

Remarks. A new species for the Kunashir Islands, flying in October, as in Japan ( Nakajima, Yazaki 2011). This is a single autumn species of geometrids, before known on the Kurils from Urup and Iturup ( Bryk 1942). Larvae in Europe are polyphagous on various trees and shrubs, on the RFE prefer Betulaceae and Salicaceae . In East Asia the subspecies E. a. autumnus ( Bryk, 1942) is distributed, described from Iturup.