Keywords
island biogeography
Kurile Islands
Russian Far East
Catocala
Lampides boeticus
Macroglossum saga
How to Cite
Abstract
This article presents the first records of five species of moths and butterflies from Kunashir Island. We report on the first records of Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767), Macroglossum saga Butler, 1878, Ampelophaga rubiginosa Bremer & Grey, 1853, Catocala electa (Vieweg, 1790), and C. praegnax Walker, 1858 from Kunashir Island. Additionally, we provide commentary on the distribution of Bombyx mandarina (Moore, 1872), Caligula japonica Moore, 1862, C. jonasii (Butler, 1877), Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758), M. pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875, Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758), Catocala dula Bremer, 1861, C. lara Bremer, 1861, C. dissimilis Bremer, 1861, C. deuteronympha Staudinger, 1861, C. nupta (Linnaeus, 1767), C. fraxini (Linnaeus, 1758), Lymantria mathura (Moore, 1866), and Orgyia thyellina (Butler, 1881).
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