Moths

07.11.2018 22:56, chebur

Calliteara virginea (Oberthür, 1879)
In my opinion, this is the most beautiful wave of our fauna. In Russia, it is found in the Amur region and in Primorye. There are also very local finds in China and North Korea. In Japan, it is known only from one small area in the west of Honshu Island (in its central part) and is considered very rare.
Excellent photos of the first ages, cajarc has already put up in this topic (post from 26.07.2014). cajarc has kindly provided me with the opportunity to bring this wonderful species out of the tracks.










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07.11.2018 23:06, chebur

Now expanded Calliteara virginea (Oberthür, 1879). Thanks to Konstantin and Grigory Alekseevich for the material!
Male (53mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. KONI
Female (66mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. cajarc, cult. cajarc & chebur

There are specimens with a complete reduction of the dark pattern on the wings.
Male (51mm) and female (68mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. KONI


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09.11.2018 23:17, chebur

Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851)
It is found in the Malay Peninsula, north Sumatra, north Kalimantan and Java. The species is also widely distributed in the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Male (47mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train, det.T. Trofimov

09.11.2018 23:38, chebur

Calliteara nilgirica (Hampson, 1891)
This species, described from the south of the Hindustan peninsula, flies in most of its vast range(the Himalayas from western Nepal and further east to southern China and Hainan Island; almost all of Indochina, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Palawan) together with the following species - C. grotei. There are minor external differences, but some species differ only in their genitals.
Male (38mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg. swerig, det.T. Trofimova
Female (60mm) - northern Thailand, leg.S. Murzin, det. T. Trofimova


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10.11.2018 0:11, chebur

Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859)
This species is found in central, southeastern and southern China (including Hainan Island); in the Himalayas (from Pakistan in the west to Sikkim in the east). It is found in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also found in the north of Indochina. The southern part of the range covers the Malay Peninsula, north Sumatra and Kalimantan, as well as the Philippine islands of Palawan, Luzon and Negros.
Next, a photo of a "classic" color pair of this species from China with dark gray monophonic front wings. However, males of this species may have light areas at the base of their forewings and fly with one or (!) several genital counterpart species, depending on the locale. Special care should be taken when working with Filipino material.
Male (42mm) and female (67mm) - China, Shanxi leg.Viktor Sinyaev
These butterflies were bred by P. Morozov from eggs obtained from a "wild" female. His photo essay of the preimaginal stages of this species and live butterflies is already available in this topic on the first page. However, there they appear under the name " Calliteara horsfieldii "(posts from 06.07.2008-22.10.2008).
I express my gratitude to Morozzz for the interesting material!


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10.11.2018 0:17, chebur

Calliteara gede Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Another double species of C. grotei, replacing it in the west of the Indonesian island of Java. When describing the species, DNA analysis methods were used.
Male (43mm) - Indonesia, Java Island, leg. local collector, det.T. Trofimova


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10.11.2018 0:27, chebur

Calliteara lourensi Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Endemic to The Philippines. It is found on many islands of the archipelago: Leyte, Samar, Panay, Mindoro, Negros and Mindanao.
Male (48mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island, leg.Iv Shin, det.T. Trofimov

10.11.2018 0:39, chebur

Calliteara strishini Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
The species was described from males from Ambon, Buru, Seram and Cay Islands. The female has not been formally described yet, but due to sexual dimorphism, a DNA test is needed to confirm the species identity, for which my specimen is of little use. The fact that this specimen belongs to C. strishini may also be supported by the fact that fr.Other species of the "pudibunda" group with an undescribed female have not yet been reported.
Female (87mm) - Indonesia, Buru Island, leg. local collector


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10.11.2018 10:02, chebur

Calliteara lurida Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Endemic to O.New Guinea. It is known from both the Indonesian part and Papua New Guinea. It differs from a number of similar New Guinea species in its genitals.
Male (41mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. I. Ivy, gen. prep. D. Shovkun, det. T. Trofimova


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10.11.2018 20:19, chebur

Calliteara ambigua Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Species found in the west and east of the island.New Guinea (there were no finds in the center of the island yet) and on the Indonesian island ofBiak . It has two forms: dark (pictured) and light. The light form is similar to C. nilgirica.
I would like to express my gratitude to sdi for the wonderful material on the New Guinea Limantriids! Male (36mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. local collector

10.11.2018 20:22, chebur

Calliteara subnigra (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
Another species endemic to the island.New Guinea.
Male (40mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. local collector

10.11.2018 20:33, chebur

In the east, representatives of the "pudibunda" group of species reached the Solomon Islands, where two species are known. Actually, east of the waves, Calliteara grasshoppers are known only from the Fiji Islands, but the species living there are allocated to the hotel species group "fidjiensis".
Calliteara buinensis (Collenette, 1951)
Male (48mm) and Female (93mm) - Solomon Islands, leg. V. Gurko

10.11.2018 20:35, chebur

Calliteara salomonensis (Testout, 1945)
Male (61mm) - Solomon Islands, leg. V. Gurko

10.11.2018 20:39, AGG

AHERET!!! Nikolai, you are the best!!!

10.11.2018 20:42, chebur

Calliteara grossa (Pagenstecher, 1888)
The species flies in Indonesia on the Moluccas (Buru, Seram, Kei). The currently known distribution coincides with that of C. strishini described earlier.
Male (56mm) - Indonesia, Seram Island, leg. local collector

10.11.2018 20:49, chebur

Calliteara ester Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Species found on.Sulawesi, as well as on small islands to the east of it: Peleng and Sanana.
Male (50 mm) - Indonesia, south of the island.Sulawesi, leg. local collector


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10.11.2018 20:56, chebur

Calliteara cerigoides (Walker, 1862)
It is found in southern India, northern Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, and the Philippines (including Palawan). The easternmost find is Halmahera Island (the largest of the Moluccas).
Male (56mm) - Indonesia, Halmahera Island, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

11.11.2018 22:49, chebur

The species group "rotundata" includes 12 species endemic to the island.New Guinea and one species from Australia. Several species of this group are known, so far, only from the collection of 1938, made in the inaccessible high-altitude areas of the Central mountain range of the island.
Here are a few more ordinary members of the group.
Calliteara kenricki (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
Male (51mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. local collector

11.11.2018 22:51, chebur

Calliteara highlandica Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Male (49mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. local collector

11.11.2018 22:52, chebur

Calliteara brunnea (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
Male (55mm) - Indonesia, Western New Guinea, leg. And Ivy

14.11.2018 22:32, chebur

The species group "varia" includes 22 taxa of specific and subspecific rank. Its representatives can be found on a vast territory from Afghanistan in the west, to the Indonesian island of Seram in the east. Two species (C. lunulata and C. solitaria) fly in our Far East. The greatest diversity of taxa [13] is found in China
in the species that gave its name to the entire group.
Calliteara varia (Walker, 1855)
Distribution: Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, Northern India, Nepal, northern Myanmar, China (Yunnan Province).
Male (43mm) - Pakistan, leg. T. Rehman

14.11.2018 22:44, chebur

Calliteara postfusca (Swinhoe, 1895)
Distribution: Nepal, Northern India, Myanmar, southern mainland China, Hainan and Taiwan Islands, Indochina.
Male (44mm) - Vietnam, leg. V. Golovizin
Female (56mm) - Nepal, leg.Mergen

14.11.2018 22:56, chebur

Calliteara diplozona (Collenette 1932)
Distribution: Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo.
Male (43mm) - Malaysia, Pahang, leg. O.Mosolov
Female (62mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train

Still such a not quite standard male.
Male (45mm) - Malaysia, Pahang, leg.Alexey Vishnyakov, Gen. prep. & det. D. Shovkun


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14.11.2018 23:16, chebur

Calliteara oxygnatha (Collenette, 1936)
Found, so far, only in China (Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi).
Male (46mm) and female (64mm) - China, Sichuan, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

14.11.2018 23:36, chebur

Calliteara lunulata lunulata (Butler, 1877)
In Russia, the nominative subspecies flies in the Amur Region, in the south of Khabarovsk Krai, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, on Sakhalin, and in the southern Kuril Islands. It also includes populations from Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
Male (55mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. KONI
Female (70mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. sdi


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14.11.2018 23:43, chebur

Calliteara lunulata aura Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Subspecies found in China and northern Indochina. Differences from the nominative are genital.
Male (50 mm) - China, Shaanxi, leg.Viktor Sinyaev, Gen. prep. & det. D. Shovkun


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15.11.2018 21:48, chebur

Calliteara alba Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
The species occurs in the mountains of southern China (Yunnan province) and northern Indochina (found in northern Thailand and northern Vietnam).
Male (42mm) and female (55mm) - Vietnam, leg. local collector

15.11.2018 23:28, chebur

The second species of this group of Russian fauna. Described from Primorye. It is also found in the north of the Korean Peninsula and in China (Shandong and Shaanxi).
Calliteara solitaria (Staudinger, 1892)
Male (55mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg.Yakovlev
Female (69mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. KONI

Male (50mm) and female (76mm) - China, Shaanxi, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

17.11.2018 0:16, chebur

Calliteara contexta (Chao, 1986)
Two subspecies have been described. C. contexta contexta is found in mainland China (Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Yunnan) and northern Vietnam. Subspecies C. contexta kezukai (Kishida,1998) Is Endemic To The island OfTaiwan.
Male (42mm) - China, Jiangxi, leg. local collector


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17.11.2018 19:43, chebur

The species Calliteara ignorata Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016 is divided into three subspecies, which differ both in appearance and in the structure of the genitals.
The nominate subspecies is found in southern China (Sichuan, Yunnan), northern Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), and northeastern India (Assam).
By the way, the name of the species indicates that it can easily be confused with several similar ones. The exact definition of the male required a study of the genital structures, which was conducted by D. Shovkun.
Male (46mm) and female (67mm)- China, Yunnan, leg.Viktor Sinyaev


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17.11.2018 19:49, chebur

Calliteara ignorata javanica Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
This taxon is found only in the western Indonesian island.Java.
Male (41mm) - Indonesia, Java, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

18.11.2018 0:18, chebur

Calliteara pseudolairdae Holloway, 1999
Endemic to Australia.Borneo (Kalimantan).
Female (64mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train

18.11.2018 21:29, chebur

The "conjuncta" group includes 4 very "diverse" in appearance, living in mainland East Asia and Japan. Combining them into one group is very conditional and preliminary.
Calliteara conjuncta (Wileman, 1911)
It is found in the Far East of Russia, on the Korean Peninsula, in central China (Hubei, Shaanxi) and in Japan (Tsushima, Honshu, Shikoku Islands).
Male (39mm) and female (48mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg. cajarc
Female (48mm) - Russia, Primorye, leg.V.Vasilenko


The taxon Dasychira phloeobares Collenette, 1938, was described from Shaanxi and synonymized with C. conjuncta. In the color scheme of the Chinese population there are yellowish and brown tones, specimens are somewhat larger than seaside ones, but the structure of the genital structures is identical.
In Primorye, this species can produce a partial second generation.
Male (43mm) - China, Shaanxi, leg.Viktor Sinyaev
Male (37mm) - Russia, Primorye, September 12, 2016, leg. V. Golovizin

18.11.2018 21:43, chebur

Calliteara wolongensis (Chao, 1986)
An early spring species that flies in the mountains of central, southeastern, and southern China (Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan).
Male (68mm) and female (83mm) - China, Jiangxi, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

19.11.2018 23:50, chebur

The "complicata" group currently also includes 4 species.
The most widespread of these is Calliteara complicata (Walker, 1865). It flies in the Indian Himalayas, Nepal, in the mountains of China (Hubei, Shaanxi, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan) and northern Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam). The view is highly variable. So far, it has not been possible to identify stable geographically isolated forms. This will require further research involving DNA testing. So, under the guise of C. complicata, several related species can theoretically hide.
Male (53mm) - China, Sichuan, leg.Viktor Sinyaev
Female (75mm) - China, Hubei, leg. local collector
Male (52mm) - northern Thailand, leg.Iv Shin
Female (92mm) - China, Tibet, leg. local collector

20.11.2018 22:07, chebur

The group "strigata" includes 8 species, which are united by the similarity in the structure of the genitals of males. Most of the group's species fly in the Himalayas and mountains of China.
The most widespread species of the group is Calliteara strigata (Moore, 1879). It is found in northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, China (Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan), Indochina (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia), Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Kalimantan (Borneo), Java).
Male (57mm) - India, Nagaland, leg.Viktor Sinyaev
Female (73mm) - Vietnam, leg. local collector

Male (49mm) and female (81mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo, Sabah, leg.Train

Male (45mm) and female (77mm) - Indonesia, Java, leg. local collector

Here is this male from Laos in general stumped. There was a strong suspicion that it was a different species. The exact definition required a study of genital structures, which was conducted by Dmitry Fedorovich. It turned out to be a male C. strigata.
Male-Laos, leg. M. Murzin, gen. prep. & det. D. Shovkun


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20.11.2018 22:43, chebur

Calliteara taiwana (Wileman, 1910)
It is found in the mountains of the eastern part of mainland China, on the island of.Taiwan and Japan (Tsushima, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima, Amamioshima, Okinawa).
Male (52mm) and female (81mm) - China, Shaanxi, leg.Viktor Sinyaev

20.11.2018 23:18, chebur

21.11.2018 22:46, chebur

Calliteara albescens (Moore, 1879)
Himalayan species, reaching east to north of Indochina. It is found in northern India, Nepal, southern China (Tibet, Yunnan) and northern Vietnam.
Female (60mm) - China, Tibet, leg. local collector

22.11.2018 22:40, chebur

Calliteara ashoka Trofimova, Shovkoon et Witt, 2016
Mountain Himalayan species. It flies in the north-west of India and in the west of Nepal.
Male (45mm) - India, Himachal Pradesh, leg. A.Gorodinsky