Кавказский энтомол. бюллетень 12(2): 285–288 © CAUCASIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL BULL. 2016
1Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica, London, United Kingdom. E-mail: kbegemot@gmail.com
2Kh.I. Ibragimov Multi-discipline Research Institute, Staropromyslovskoye shosse, 21a, Grozny, Chechen Republic 364051 Russia
1Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica, Лондон, Великобритания
2Комплексный научно-исследовательский институт им. Х.И. Ибрагимова РАН, Старопромысловское шоссе, 21а, Грозный, Чеченская Республика 364051 Россия
Key words: Lepidoptera, Scythrididae, Tortricidae, Lycaenidae, Pyralidae, Crambidae, Geometridae, Erebidae, Nolidae, Russia, Caucasus, Chechen Republic, faunistics.
Ключевые слова: Lepidoptera, Scythrididae, Tortricidae, Lycaenidae, Pyralidae, Crambidae, Geometridae, Erebidae, Nolidae, Россия, Кавказ, Чеченская Республика, фаунистика.
Abstract. Further interesting records of Lepidoptera from Chechen Republic (Russia) are presented. Eugnosta magnificana (Rebel, 1914) and Hypsopygia fulvocilialis (Duponchel, 1832) are reported as new to the Northern Caucasus; 13 species are reported as new to the North- Eastern Caucasus and 3 species as new to Chechen Republic.
Резюме. Публикуются дальнейшие интересные сведения о находках чешуекрылых в Чеченской Республике. Eugnosta magnificana (Rebel, 1914) и Hypsopygia fulvocilialis (Duponchel, 1832) впервые
приводятся для фауны Северного Кавказа, еще 13 видов – впервые для Северо-Восточного Кавказа и 3 – впервые для Чеченской Республики.
Since our first communication [Proklov, Karayeva, 2013], further interesting records of Lepidoptera were made by the second author, while collecting in and around the city of Grozny, which we present in this paper.
All specimens were photographed by S.Z. Karayeva either at an artificial light source at night or on the spot when found by day. Some were collected onto a cotton- wool mattress. Species that can be unequivocally identified from photographs are included in the present article, those requiring dissection are left for a future study.
Although geographically speaking Grozny city lies in the Ciscaucasian plain, rather than in the Greater Caucasus mountains, for the sake of recording we adhere to the administrative division, as well as regions delimited in the “Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia” [2008] (hereinafter referred to as “Catalogue”), where Republics of Chechnya and Dagestan are combined as region 14, North-Eastern Caucasus.
Classification follows the current internationally accepted system [Nieukerken et al., 2011]. Species new for the North-Eastern Caucasus are marked with an asterisk (*), those new for the Northern Caucasus with a double asterisk (**).
Family Scythrididae
Scythris sinensis (Felder et Rogenhofer, 1875)* (Fig. 1)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 23.06.2012; 25.08.2015, 2 specimens by day.
Family Tortricidae
Eugnosta magnificana (Rebel, 1914)** (Fig. 2)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 16.06.2014, 1 specimen to light.
Distribution. Only E. hydrargyrana (Eversmann, 1842) and E. lathoniana (Hübner, [1799]) were reported from the Northern Caucasus in the “Catalogue” [2008]. Nearest published records are from the Kalmyk Republic [Nedoshivina, Saranova, 2005] and Rostov Region [Poltavsky, 2015]. New to the Northern Caucasus.
Family Lycaenidae
Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, [1844]) (Fig. 3)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, 2 km N of Grozny (abandoned country houses), 18.08.2015, 1 specimen.
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Cupido (Everes) alcetas (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)* (Fig. 4)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, 2 km N of Grozny (abandoned country houses), 26.06.2013, 17.06.2014, 2 specimens.
Family Pyralidae
Hypsopygia fulvocilialis (Duponchel, 1832)** (Fig. 5)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 8.08.2014, 11.08.2015, 2 specimens to light.
Selagia argyrella (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)* (Fig. 6)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 27–28.05.2014, 2 specimens to light.
Hypochalcia decorella (Hübner, [1810])* (Fig. 7)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 12.05.2014, 1 specimen to light.
Evergestis politalis (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)* (Fig. 10)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 12.05, 8.07.2012; 15.08,
17.09, 6.11.2013; 19.05.2014; 28.07, 7.08.2016, 8 specimens to light.
Hellula undalis (Fabricius, 1781)* (Fig. 11)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 17, 26.10.2012; 15,
26.09.2015, 4 specimens to light.
Our exclusively late dates also suggest a vagrant nature of these occurrences, although the breeding grounds are likely to be not far away. New to the North-Eastern Caucasus.
Heliothela wulfeniana (Scopoli, 1763)* (Fig. 12)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 2.09.2012; 15.07, 25.08.2015; 23.07.2016, 4 specimens by day (common in and around the city).
Acrobasis advenella (Zincken, 1818)* (Fig. 8)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 3, 9.08.2014, 2 specimens to light.
Family Crambidae
Agrotera nemoralis (Scopoli, 1763)* (Fig. 9)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 15, 23.05.2014, 2 specimens to light.
Metacrambus carectellus (Zeller, 1847)* (Fig. 13)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 4.06.2014; 6.07.2015; 7–8, 15, 17, 19, 31.07.2016, 8 specimens to light (common in the city in July-
August of 2016).
Cataclysta lemnata (Linnaeus, 1758)* (Fig. 14)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 4.05.2014, 1 specimen to
light.
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Figs 1–18. New and interesting Lepidoptera from Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia.
Рис. 1–18. Новые и интересные чешуекрылые, Грозный, Чеченская Республика, Россия.
1 – Scythris sinensis (Felder et Rogenhofer, 1875), 25.08.2015; 2 – Eugnosta magnificana (Rebel, 1914), 16.06.2014; 3 – Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer,
[1844]), 18.08.2015; 4 – Cupido (Everes) alcetas (Hoffmannsegg, 1804), 17.06.2014; 5 – Hypsopygia fulvocilialis (Duponchel, 1832), 11.08.2015; 6 – Selagia
argyrella (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775), 28.05.2014; 7 – Hypochalcia decorella (Hübner, [1810]), 12.05.2014; 8 – Acrobasis advenella (Zincken, 1818),
3.08.2014; 9 – Agrotera nemoralis (Scopoli, 1763), 15.05.2014; 10 – Evergestis politalis (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775), 7.08.2016; 11 – Hellula undalis
(Fabricius, 1781), 15.09.2015; 12 – Heliothela wulfeniana (Scopoli, 1763), 25.08.2015; 13 – Metacrambus carectellus (Zeller, 1847), 8.07.2016; 14 – Cataclysta
lemnata (Linnaeus, 1758), 4.05.2014; 15 – Idaea dimidiata (Hufnagel, 1767), 30.05.2014; 16 – Larentia clavaria (Haworth, 1809), 23.10.2015; 17 – Pelosia
muscerda (Hufnagel, 1766), 3.06.2014; 18 – Nola cicatricalis (Treitschke, 1835), 8.04.2016.
Family Geometridae
Idaea dimidiata (Hufnagel, 1767)* (Fig. 15)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 30.05.2014, 3.06.2015, 2 specimens to light.
Larentia clavaria (Haworth, 1809)* (Fig. 16)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny, 23.10.2011, 23.10.2015, 2 specimens to light.
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of the “Catalogue” [2008]). New to the North-Eastern Caucasus.
Family Erebidae
Pelosia muscerda (Hufnagel, 1766)* (Fig. 17)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny (L.E. Tsepova’s Str.), 26, 29.05, 3.06.2014, 3 specimens to light.
Family Nolidae
Nola cicatricalis (Treitschke, 1835) (Fig. 18)
Record. Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny (Bibliotechnaya Str.), 8.04.2016, 1 specimen to light.
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