Larerannis orthogrammaria (Wehrli)

Beljaev, Еvgeniy A. & Titova, Olga L., 2023, New data on geometroid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Uraniidae and Geometridae) from Sakhalin and Moneron islands with notes on their taxonomy distribution and ecology, Zootaxa 5369 (1), pp. 1-41 : 10

Larerannis orthogrammaria (Wehrli)

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Larerannis orthogrammaria : Beljaev & Mironov 2019: 247 (Sakhalin).

Material examined. 1 ♂, S Kholmsk, 12.X.2017 .

Distribution. Russia (S RFE: SW Sakhalin; S Khabarovskii Krai, Primorskii Krai), central European Part (Moskovskaya Oblast, introduced), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), South Korea,?N China.

Remarks. The finding of L. orthogrammaria in Sakhalin significantly expands its distribution range to the northeast. The species belongs to the late autumn phenological group of the moths; in Hokkaido L. orthogrammaria fly in October ( Sato 2011). The larvae are polyphagous on deciduous trees.

The wing pattern and the male genitalia of Larerannis albicans Nakajima & Wang, 2014 , described from Shaanxi ( Nakajima & Wang 2014: 56, figs 24, 37), almost match with those of the typical L. orthogrammaria , which was described from Primorskii Krai. Probably, the former name may be a junior synonym of the latter one.

Figures

FIGURES 2–21. Epipleminae, Ennominae, Desmobathrinae and Geometrinae from Sakhalin. 2—Dysaethria illotata, ♀, S Kholmsk; 3—D. moza, ♀, Sokhonda mount.; 4—Eversmannia exornata, ♀, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; 5—Eilicrinia wehrlii, ♂, “Chertov most”, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 6—Lomographa simplicior, ♂, Sokhonda mount.; 7—Platycerota incertaria, ♂, Pionery, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 8—Aethalura ignobilis, ♀, S Kholmsk; 9—Gigantalcis flavolinearia, ♂, S Kholmsk; 10—Pachyerannis obliquaria ♂, central Kholmsk, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 11—Cusiala stipitaria, ♂, S Kholmsk; 12—Larerannis orthogrammaria, ♂, S Kholmsk; 13—Lassaba nikkonis, ♀, S Kholmsk; 14— Zanclidia testacea, ♀, Sokhonda mount.; 15—Abraxas niphonibia, ♀, Moneron (a—upper side; b—underside); 16—Macaria continuaria, ♂, Nysh; 17–18—Alsophila japonensis, S Kholmsk: 17—♂, 18—♀, photo in nature by O.L. Titova; 18—Inurois asahinai, S Kholmsk; 20—Geometra dieckmanni, ♀, S Kholmsk; 21—Comibaena amoenaria, ♂, S Kholmsk. Scale—10 mm.