Moths

07.01.2014 19:09, chebur

Lymantria (Porthetria) orestera (Collenette, 1932)
The species is widely distributed in Indochina. It is described from mainland Malaysia, but most of the finds occur in the north of the region.
Male (46mm) – Northern Thailand, leg. O.Mosolov

07.01.2014 19:13, chebur

Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata (Moore, 1879)
The species is widely distributed in Southeast Asia, where it is represented by three subspecies. The nominative subspecies is found in Northern India, the Andaman Islands, and northern Indochina. From Central Thailand south to about.Java meets the subspecies marginalis. It is a subspecies of roseoides in the Philippine Archipelago.

Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata bivittata (Moore, 1879)
Male (46mm) – Northern Thailand, leg. O.Mosolov

Male (51mm) - Central Vietnam leg. Dim-va

07.01.2014 19:23, chebur

Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata marginalis (Walker, 1862)
Male (45mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train

07.01.2014 19:26, chebur

Lymantria (Porthetria) narindra (Moore, 1859)
The species is widely distributed in the Sunda Islands (except about.Sulawesi), as well as on the island ofPalawan. On the mainland, it goes north to the middle provinces of Thailand. It is not entirely clear where the northern distribution boundary lies, but a twin species, Lymantria (Porthetria) sapaensis (Kishida, 1998), already flies in the northern provinces of Thailand.
Females of this, the next and two other species from the islands of Flores and Timor claim to be the largest butterflies in the family Lymantriidae (subfamily Erebidae: Lymantriinae). Then there are two males from the north and south of the range. As you can see, they are almost identical.
Male (64mm) - Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov

Male (64mm) - Indonesia, Java, leg. local collector

07.01.2014 19:29, chebur

Lymantria (Porthetria) sapaensis (Kishida, 1998)
It is found in the north (Thailand) and east (Vietnam) of Indochina and in the South of China, where it replaces L. narindra.. Described from Northern Vietnam.
Male (79mm) and female (110mm) – Northern Thailand, leg.Cajarc and leg. local collector respectively

08.01.2014 12:37, chebur

The subgenus Lymantria (Hübner, [1819]) includes 25 species. Its representatives inhabit a vast area from Europe in the west, to the island.New Guinea in the east. The subgenus is most diverse in Southeastern China. In Russia, the subgenus is represented by one species: Lymantria (Lymantria) monacha (Linnaeus, 1758).

Lymantria (Lymantria) monacha (Linnaeus, 1758)
The most widespread (after the unpaired) species of the genus does not really need to be represented. Nevertheless, it is distributed in Europe from Great Britain in the West to the Urals, in Central Asia (rare finds), from the Korean Peninsula, from Japan, Central and Eastern China. In Russia, it is found in the European part of the country, in the South of Siberia and in the Far East. In this species, it is very common to observe complete or partial melanists.
I managed to breed a female melanist of this species from a caterpillar collected on the trunk of a spruce tree on June 2, 2013.



Second molt on June 8, 2013.

A fairly grown caterpillar on June 13, 2013.

Portrait.

The caterpillar blended quite well with the branch, and on the tree trunk where I found it, the disguise was even better. It should be noted that it was collected at a height of only 1.5 m from the ground on the trunk of a forty-year-old spruce. Apparently slid so low from despair, because this spruce has almost died from bark beetle-typographer.

08.01.2014 12:42, chebur

June 18, 2013. We prepare for pupation and weave a light cocoon of several threads to support the pupa.


June 19, 2013. The transition to the chrysalis state is complete!



June 27, 2013. The birth of a miracle! It should be noted that I did not specifically do anything with the pupa, so the melanism is not caused by exposure to an unusual temperature regime.

08.01.2014 13:16, chebur

Earlier in July, in this spruce forest, you could always find nuns sitting on trunks. After the hot summer of 2010 and the subsequent outbreak of bark beetles, the forest began to die. It was cut down last year, so now it's only in the photo.

08.01.2014 13:28, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) monacha (Linnaeus, 1758)
Male (39mm) - Russia, Moscow region, leg. сhebur

Females: 1-(49mm) – brood, 2-(51mm) - Russia, Moscow region, leg. сhebur

Small male (30mm) - leg, Moscow, Russia. сhebur

Male (mm) and female: 1-(38mm), 2 - (47mm – - Russia, Primorye leg. KONI

Two more females from Primorye with different degrees of development of the black pattern: 1-(50 mm), 2-(48 mm), leg. KONI

Largest female (57mm) - Portugal, leg. lepidopterolog

08.01.2014 13:32, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) similis (Moore, 1879)
The species is widely distributed and is represented by three subspecies. The nominate is found in the mountains of Nepal, Northern India, Bhutan and Southern China, as well as in northern Indochina. Subspecies loeffleri is known from Vietnam, Eastern Thailand and Cambodia, while subspecies monachoides flies in the mountains of Central China (Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces).

Lymantria (Lymantria) similis similis (Moore, 1879)
Male (41mm) - Nepal, leg. Morozzz

Male (43mm) and Female (72mm – - Northern Laos leg. S. Murzin

08.01.2014 13:35, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) similis monachoides (Shintlmeister, 2004)
Male (41mm) and female (56mm) – China, Sichuan, leg.Victor Siniaev

08.01.2014 13:39, chebur

Lymantria (Lyinantria) concolor (Walker, 1855)
The species is widely distributed from the mountains of Pakistan to the east to about.Taiwan, where it is represented by the subspecies horishana. Another subspecies, septentrionalis, is described from the mountains of Central China. The southern limit of distribution of the species passes through Northern Thailand and Central Vietnam, where the nominate flies.
Lymantria (Lyinantria) concolor concolor (Walker, 1855)
Male (39mm) - Vietnam, leg. C.Ryabov
Female (75mm) - Bhutan, leg.Victor Siniaev

08.01.2014 13:43, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) concolor septentrionalis (Schintlmeister, 2004)
Male (44mm) and female (56mm – - China, Shaanxi, leg. local collector

08.01.2014 13:45, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) ossea (Toxopeus, 1948)
A very rare species, known only from the slopes of several volcanoes in the west of the island.Java. Females are not known.
Male (41mm) - Indonesia, Java, leg.Victor Siniaev

08.01.2014 13:46, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) alexandrae (Schintlmeister, 1994)
It is found in Indochina, Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Male (38mm) – Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov

08.01.2014 13:59, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) demotes (Collenette, 1947)
The view is described with o.Sulawesi. It is also found on the Mollukk Islands, where almost every island has its own subspecies: galai on Halmahera Island and Bochan Island, prattorum on Buru Island, seramensis onSeram.

Lymantria (Lymantria) demotes seramensis (Schintlmeister, 2004)
Male (45mm) – Indonesia, Seram Island, leg. local collector


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08.01.2014 14:07, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) subrosea (Swinhoe, 1903)
The species is found in Southern India and Sri Lanka, where it is a nominative subspecies. A much more widespread subspecies is singapura, which can be found in a vast area from Northern India in the north, through Indochina and the Sunda Islands to about.Timor in the South. The easternmost islands where the view is marked are the Philippines and o.Seram.

Lymantria (Lymantria) subrosea singapura (Swinhoe, 1906)
Male (43mm) and female (59mm) – Northern Thailand, leg. S.
Murzin The female is quite small and does not have a yellowish tinge on the hind wings. Apparently, that season in Northern Thailand turned out to be unfavorable. Among the males from this point also came across midgets with a wingspan of 35 mm.

Male (45mm) - Malaysia, Borneo, Sabah, leg. P. Romantsov

Male (43mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island leg.Iv Shin

08.01.2014 14:09, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) semperi (Shintlmeister, 2004)
flies with L. subrosea throughout the Philippine Archipelago. Males are distinguished externally by more elongated forewings, a less contrasting black pattern on them. The species is also much larger than L. subrosea. Actually, this is the largest species in the subgenus. The female of this species is the owner of bright pink hind wings.
Male (61mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island, leg.Iv Shin



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08.01.2014 14:15, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) semicincta (Walker, 1855)
One of the most striking and unusual representatives of the genus with a pronounced sexual dimorphism. It is distributed in the Himalayas and Indochina.
Bright appearance made this look the subject of falsifications. For example, one of the females studied by A. Schintlmeister in 2004, someone glued the yellow hind wings of a bear, and this very unusual specimen is even illustrated in his work as an unusual form of this species. It is currently in MWM.
The female and male were naturally first described as different species, and their conspecificity was proved relatively recently by breeding.
Male (36mm) - Northern India, leg. Victor Siniaev
Female (54mm) - Northern Laos, leg. I. Ivy


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08.01.2014 19:00, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) argyrochroa (Collenette, 1936)
It is found in southern China and Northern Myanmar. Similar to the next one, but much larger. The wings have a distinct grayish tinge.
Female (58mm) - China, Sichuan, leg.Victor Siniaev


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08.01.2014 19:52, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) dissoluta (Swinhoe, 1903)
This small gray species is widespread in China. There is one find in Myanmar. It has a twin in the Western Himalayas.
Male (33mm) - China, Henan, leg. local collector
Female (49mm) – China, Jiangxi, leg. local collector

08.01.2014 19:53, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) moesta (Swinhoe, 1903)
is a rare species. Double of the Chinese dissoluta. It is occasionally found in the mountains of northern Pakistan and Northwestern India.
Male (35mm) – Northwest India, leg.CosMosk

Male (30mm) - Pakistan, leg. local collector

08.01.2014 19:54, chebur

Lymantria (Lymantria) sinica (Moore, 1879)
The species is found in Central and Eastern China, on the islands of Taiwan and Hainan, where it is represented by a nominate. The color of males is variable and varies from light to almost black, but the light basal area of the forewings is always present. In northern Vietnam, a very different-looking light population (no dark individuals were found among males) flies, which A. Schintlmeister described as a subspecies of albido, noting the identity of the genital structures. This subspecies was reduced to synonyms in 2007 by the American researchers M. G. Pogue and P. W. Schaefer.

Lymantria (Lymantria) sinica sinica (Moore, 1879)
Male (40mm) and female (47mm) – China, Hainan Island, leg. Victor Siniaev

Dark male (40mm) – China, Hainan Island, leg. Victor Siniaev

09.01.2014 19:15, chebur

The subgenus Beatria (Shintlmeister, 2004), which includes 7 species, is distributed in India, Southern China and further on the islands of Indonesia.

Lymantria (Beatria) beatrix (Stoll, 1791)
The species is widely distributed in the Sunda Islands (except about.Sulawesi). It is also found in the south of mainland Malaysia and on the island of.Palawan. Females are characterized by a grayish, and sometimes even bluish background of the forewings.
Female (54mm) - Indonesia, Java, leg. Victor Siniaev

09.01.2014 20:01, chebur

Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini (Schintlmeister, 2004)
The species is found in northern Indochina, where it is a nominate subspecies, and in the mountains of Central China, where the subspecies ricardae flies. It is a twin species of Lymantria (Beatria) marginata (Walker, 1855), which occurs to the west.

Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini hauensteini (Schintlmeister, 2004)
Male (33mm) - Thailand, leg. S.
Murzin Female (64mm – - North Vietnam, leg. local collector

09.01.2014 20:51, chebur

Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini ricardae (Schintlmeister, 2004)
Male (38mm) and female (63mm) - China, Shaanxi leg. Victor Siniaev

10.01.2014 17:17, chebur

Lymantria (Beatria) atemeles (Collenette, 1932)
The species is found in Indochina. In part of its range, it flies together with L. hauensteini hauensteini.
Male (40mm) - Vietnam, leg.beetl

10.01.2014 18:39, chebur

Hybrid of Lymantria (Beatria) atemeles x Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini hauensteini.
Male (40mm) - Northern Thailand, leg. S. Murzin

11.01.2014 10:23, chebur

The subgenus Nyctria (Shintlmeister, 2004), which includes 12 species, is widely distributed in East, South, and Southeast Asia. One species of the subgenus, Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura (Moore, 1865), is found in the Russian Far East. The species Lymantria (Nyctria) naessigi (Shintlmeister, 2004), found in the Philippines, stands apart in the subgenus due to its strong differences from the type species.

Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura (Moore, 1865)
The species is found in Primorye, on the Korean Peninsula, on the Japanese Islands, in China, on the island of Taiwan, where, according to A. Schintlmeister, it is represented by the subspecies aurora, as well as on Hainan Island, in Indochina and the Himalayas, where the nominate subspecies flies. Some researchers distinguish a population with O.Taiwan in a separate subspecies-Lymantria mathura subpallida Okano, 1960. In 2007, the Americans described from Japanese about.Okinawa a new species is Lymantria (Nyctria) flavida (Pogue & Schaefer, 2007). External differences from Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura are minimal. The description justifies minor differences in the structure of the genital apparatus, differences identified during DNA analysis, and different chemical composition of pheromones.

Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura mathura (Moore, 1865)
Males of the nominative subspecies fly in two forms: light and dark.
Male (41mm) and female (60mm) – Laos. Male – leg. And. Ivy; female-ex. ovo: leg.Victor Siniaev, brought out Morozzz. For this species, the female is very small. Probably starved :B

Dark Shape Male (35mm) - Northern Thailand leg. S. Murzin

11.01.2014 21:22, chebur

Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura aurora (Butler, 1877)
Males of this subspecies are generally darker than their southern counterparts. The color of the hind wings, even in the light form, is usually dirty yellow, not bright yellow.
Male (46mm) and female (78mm) – Russia, Primorye, leg. sdi

In Central and Eastern China, according to literature data, the same subspecies flies. This female has pale hindwings, which is typical of the aurora subspecies, but it is much larger than the seaside ones.
Female (!102mm) - China, Fujian, leg. local collector


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12.01.2014 9:45, chebur

What subspecies do these butterflies from Southwest China belong to? Both the male and female seem to be brighter than the aurora subspecies, and geographically these points are closer to the nominative's range.
Male (43mm) - China, Sichuan, leg.M. Murzin
Female (96mm) – China, Tibet, leg. local collector

12.01.2014 14:54, chebur

Lymantria (Nyctria) capnodes (Collenette, 1932)
The species is found in Indochina and on the Sunda Islands (except on.Sulawesi). Males fly only in dark uniforms. The female is not yet known. However, it may be a butterfly that is now considered a female Lymantria (Nyctria) minora (Van Eecke, 1928). It must be hatched from eggs.
In the north of its range, this species flies together with L. mathura mathura, with which it can be confused with melanist.
Male (30mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train


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13.01.2014 19:51, chebur

Lymantria (Nyctria) naessigi (Shintlmeister, 2004)
The species is found in the Philippine Archipelago, where it is widely distributed (not on Palawan) and is quite common. No females have been found yet. The species is unusual both in appearance and in the structure of the genital structures and stands out from other members of the subgenus Nyctria.
Male (47mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island, leg.Iv Shin

15.01.2014 20:30, chebur

The subgenus Collentria (Shintlmeister, 2004) includes 7 fairly small species that occur allopatrically in South, East, and Southeast Asia.

Lymantria (Collentria) grisea (Moore, 1879)
The species is found in the eastern Himalayas, where it is a nominative subspecies. In central Indochina, the subspecies servula is found, and on the island of.Taiwan, Eastern China and Vietnam-subspecies kosemponis.

Lymantria (Collentria) grisea kosemponis (Strand, 1914)
Male (29.5 mm) - Vietnam, leg. V. Chablis

16.01.2014 19:30, chebur

Lymantria (Collentria) cryptochloea (Collenette, 1932)
The species is found in the Philippine Archipelago. In his work, A. Schintlmeister divided it into three subspecies: cryptochloea from Mindanao Island, kinoshitai from Leyte and Negros Islands, and cernyi from o.Luzon. At the same time, the division into subspecies was based not so much on morphological differences as on allopatric distribution.

Lymantria (Collentria) cryptochloea kinoshitai (Schintlmeister, 2004)
Male (33mm) and female (45mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island leg.Iv Shin

17.01.2014 18:54, chebur

Lymantria (Collentria) barlowi (Schintlmeister, 1994)
A rare species known from several specimens from mainland Malaysia, Sumatra and Kalimantan. Fresh specimens have a pronounced purple hue, which fades over time.
Male (29mm) - Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov


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18.01.2014 20:35, chebur

Lymantria (Collentria) fergusoni (Schintlmeister, 2004)
A rare species known from a single point (TL) in the mountains of Jiangxi Province in Eastern China. The species is named after the famous entomologist Douglas Ferguson, who began systematizing the Palearctic members of the genus Lymantria.
Male (42mm) - China, Jiangxi, leg. local collector

20.01.2014 20:25, chebur

The subgenus Spinotria (Shintlmeister, 2004) is the most extensive and includes more than 40 species. Many butterflies of this subgenus are very similar in appearance and difficult to identify. Species of the subgenus are found from Pakistan in the west to Japan in the east and to the islands of Indonesia in the south, but do not reach about. New Guinea and Australia. The largest number of species of the genus (>10) is found in Indochina. In Russia, it is represented by one species - Lymantria (Spinotria) grisescens grisescens (Staudinger, 1887).

Lymantria (Spinotria) serva (Fabricius, 1793)
The species is distributed in the Himalayas. It doesn't reach Indochina. Another species in which females come across more often than males (three times!).
Female (55mm) - Bhutan, leg. Victor Siniaev

20.01.2014 21:21, dim-va

21.01.2014 19:29, chebur

Lymantria (Spinotria) eckweileri (Schintlmeister, 2004)
The species is endemic to the Philippine Island.Mindanao.
Male (42mm) - Philippines, Mindanao Island leg. Victor Siniaev