On obtaining a Lepidoptera collection of Notodontidae family in the Entomological Fund of the All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center

Abstract

The article provides an overview of Lepidoptera collection of Notodontidae family given to the Entomological Fund of the All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center by Pavel S. Morozov (Moscow). The collection includes the material from different countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. Notodontidae from Russia are represented by the specimens from the European part, the Caucasus, the Urals, Western Siberia, Altai, the Baikal region, Amur Oblast, Primorsky Krai, as well as from Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands. The total collection size is 1036 specimens, belonging to 125 species from 9 subfamilies. The collection includes the following species of the forest pests for which outbreaks of mass reproduction are known: Peridea anceps (Goeze, 1781), Phalera bucephala (Linnaeus, 1758), Dicranura ulmi (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775), Cerura vinula (Linnaeus, 1758), Cerura przewalskii (Alpheraky, 1882), Notodonta dromedarius (Linnaeus, 1767), Leucodonta bicoloria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775), Ptilodon capucina (Linnaeus, 1758), Pheosia gnoma (Fabricius, 1776), Pheosia tremula (Clerck, 1759) and Clostera anastomosis (Linnaeus, 1758). The collection also includes rare and endemic species, including recently described ones, such as, Honveda latifasciata Wu & Fang, 2003, Stauropus schaarschmidti Schintlmeister, 2003, Phalera raritas Schintlmeister, 2007, Ptilodon kobayashii Schintlmeister, 2008, Janthinisca joannoui Schintlmeister & Witt, 2015 and Zaranga koreana Beljaev et Choi, 2021. The article contains a complete species list of the collection with an indication of their corresponding subfamilies. Personal observations of mass reproduction are also given for Cerura przewalskii in one of the localities of Northern China.