Pseudeulia asinana vermicularis (Meyrick, 1935)

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 : 15

* Pseudeulia asinana vermicularis (Meyrick, 1935)

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MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , 4.5 km NW Mendeleevo airport, Tretyakovo village, 18.V–4.VI 2021, 4 ♂, 7 ♀, leg. S. Rybalkin.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (S. Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin (Sinev et al.,

2019)), NE. and E. China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); the nominotypical subspecies occurs in Europe, Minor Asia, Transcaucasia (Kuznetzov, 2001).

Here this species is recorded for the first time from the Southern Kuril Islands.

REMARKS. Jinbo (2013) considered P. asinana (Hübner, 1799) and P. vermicularis

Meyrick, 1935 as different species in Japan, but Kuznetzov (2001) treated them to be con-

specific.

Figures

Figs 41–48. Butterflies and moths from Kunashir Island, dorsal view (41,42, 44–48) and