Fauna and flora of Sakhalin

29.12.2016 6:16, Ольга Титова

03.01.2017 4:01, Ольга Титова

Polygonia c-album. In comparison, a larger tooth on the outer edge of the hindwings is clearly visible in the subspecies Polygonia c-album hamigera Butler, 1877, inhabiting Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The second-generation butterfly is larger than the first.
Surprisingly, Sakhalin imagos are larger than Kuban imagos. Perhaps the lower temperatures on Sakhalin make it possible for the caterpillar to form for a longer time. Perhaps humidity also plays a role.

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03.01.2017 4:27, Bianor

11.01.2017 8:37, Ольга Титова

09.01.2017, Kholmsk neighborhood, mixed forest with a predominance of larch. The place where Chionea sp. you can see the most. At a temperature of -1.5 on a plot of 300 m 15 individuals. Interestingly, it is on the road or near. In the forest itself is rare, only three found. Perhaps it is the road that is more protected from the wind, but open to the sun.
I just want to say that this is Chionea Nipponica, it's too similar on the Japanese site, and they live in Hokkaido. But just such an assumption was recently refuted without verification: "The species Chionea (Chionea) nipponica Alexander, 1932, was apparently erroneously indicated for the fauna of Russia (Savchenko, 1983)"(ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF WINTER MOSQUITOES OF THE GENUS CHIONEA (DIPTERA, LIMONIIDAE) OF RUSSIA V. E. Pilipenko1*, N. M. Paramonov2**, V. I. Lantsov3***). In the meantime, we will collect material and wait for the results of specialists.
I would like to note that there are small and larger individuals, this applies to both females and males. Probably the first and second year of life.

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11.01.2017 14:25, ИНО

11.01.2017 15:51, Ольга Титова

04.02.2017 2:48, Ольга Титова

Sakhalin, Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Alcis. Thank you for your help in defining Bianor, yesterday Evgeny Anatolyevich Belyaev made his own adjustments, so I feel free to offer two moths to your attention.
Alcis deversata (Staudinger, 1892). It is very widespread in Russia.

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04.02.2017 2:57, Ольга Титова

Alcis medialbifera Inoue, 1972. The distribution area is much smaller: Sredne-Amursky; Nizhne-Amursky; Sakhalinsky; Yuzhno-Kurilsky; Primorskiy.

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09.02.2017 11:42, Ольга Титова

Hermonassa arenosa (Butler, 1881), 03.09.2015
Regions of Russia
Sredne-Amursky; Nizhne-Amursky; Sakhalinsky; Yuzhno-Kurilsky; Primorskiy.

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19.02.2017 19:22, Sergey Rybalkin

Aglais connexa (Butler, [1882])

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07.03.2017 9:47, Ольга Титова

Pieris pseudonapi Verity, 1911-South Sah., South Kuriles – Japan (Hokkaido Island).
June 2016, 1st generation.

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14.03.2017 11:33, Ольга Титова

March 12, 2017. Two types of eagles: white-shouldered and white-tailed. They are easily recognized by their tail. The white-shouldered tail is elongated, wedge-shaped, stepped (photo on a tree). In the white-tailed eagle, it is shorter with a rounded top. Eagles aged 2-3 years have white tail feathers with black tips. In March, eagles migrate to the north of Sakhalin, where they nest. And often form clusters of up to 20 birds. Fishermen say that at fishing sites, birds sit down even next to a person. But I won't get to the Okhotsk coast.

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23.07.2017 10:24, Ольга Титова

23.07.2017 12:19, ИНО

11.08.2017 0:46, BeautyGail

Nicely

13.08.2017 11:41, Guest

13.08.2017 13:59, Ольга Титова

26.12.2017 7:28, Ольга Титова

Calliteara lunulata (Butler, 1887) was not observed in Sakhalin in 2015 and 2016. But in 2017, there was a massive summer period from mid-June to early July. The first males. The summer in 2016 was warm. It is possible that this year favorable conditions were created for the development of caterpillars not only of Calliteara lunulata (Butler, 1887), but also of Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758). Because I've never seen Lymantria dispar as aggressive as it was in 2017.


19.06.2017-gren
30.06-1 age
05.07-2 age, bristle markings
10.07-3 age, the bristle becomes fluffy and the second bundle markings
20.07-4 age, all the bristle bundles appear and the burrs are sprinkled with snowflakes
27.07-5 age, the snowflakes are well opened, not a caterpillar, but a miracle
11.08-the first cocoons

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20.05.2018 11:30, Ольга Титова

May 7, 2018, Sakhalin. Eupithecia takao Inoue, 1955. Distribution Russia: Sah., Approx. – Japan, Korea.
Even in Primorye, Eupithecia takao is not common, apparently much less common than the superficially similar Eupithecia daemionata.

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21.09.2018 8:16, Ольга Титова

Today I visited Cape Slepikovsky. There is a lighthouse on the cape, built by the Japanese in 1934. The lighthouse is active. All living and auxiliary rooms are connected to the lighthouse under one roof. You can live and work without going outside.

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21.09.2018 8:23, Ольга Титова

There is a well inside the lighthouse. Also on flat roofs, the Japanese have equipped the collection of rainwater, which is stored in underground tanks.

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21.09.2018 8:33, Ольга Титова

The living areas are heated by Japanese stoves.Many doors and windows remain from the time of construction.But the last window is not square, it is made in the form of a rhombus, located on the descent of the stairs.

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21.09.2018 8:49, Ольга Титова

The lighthouse is 27 meters high. Steps lead up around a circular tower.

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21.09.2018 8:56, Ольга Титова

Wonderful views open up from above. The cape itself is formed by sediments of loose material from the Kostroma River.

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21.09.2018 9:06, Ольга Титова

There are many lakes where cranberries grow. In the forest of boneberry and blueberry. Enchants the yagel and lichen. Lots of dwarf oaks.

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21.09.2018 9:11, Ольга Титова

The lighthouse keeper shows photos of the lighthouse far from the sea. Now the sea is very close. This happened as a result of changes in the sea topography after the Nevel earthquake.

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21.09.2018 9:13, Ольга Титова

These chairs are specially prepared for guests. I don't want to leave!

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22.09.2018 7:05, Ольга Титова

There are ant lions at Cape Slepikovsky.

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26.01.2019 9:05, Ольга Титова

Osmylus hyalinatus.Yuzhny Sakhalin, 12.09.2018.
Adult Osmylus are most often found in moist, shaded areas, especially along the banks of flowing water bodies. They fly very slowly at dusk or at night in warm, calm weather. Predators. [Makarkin, 1995].
Distribution. USSR: Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands (Kunashir); Japan (Makarkin, 1985). Material. Sakhalin Island: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. 6. VIII 1975 (Kuznetsov), 1 female; Lopatino 25. VIII 1979 (Plutenko), 1 female; " Saghalien Cent. Exp. Sta., 25. VII 1936", 1 male; Kunashir Island: 7. IX 1971 (Narchuk), Mendeleevo, 30. VII 1971( Narchuk), 3 males, 1 female; ... 7 km From Mendeleevo, 2.VII 1981 (Belokopylsky), 2 males, 1 female. Ecology has not been studied ( Makarkin, 1985). They fly in moist broad-leaved forests (Makarkin, 1995).
Makarkin V. N. 1985. Review of the OSMYLIDAE (NEUROPTERA) family of the USSR fauna / / Taxonomy and ecology of arthropods of the Far East. Vladivostok: DVNC FR USSR. 132 p.
Makarkin V. N. 1995. 1. Family OSMYLIDAE / / Determinant of insects of the Far East. Volume IV. Part 1. Saint Petersburg: Science.

It would be interesting to read the paper Descriptions of three larvae of < i>Osmylus < / i> species from Japan (Neuroptera: Osmylidae), with a proposed naming system for the larval sclerites. I can't download it yet.

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01.02.2019 12:15, Ольга Титова

The most delicate creature is a representative of Ephemeroptera.
Sakhalin, eastern outskirts of Kholmsk, Malka River, 14.07.2018.

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07.02.2019 9:52, Ольга Титова

Sakhalin, southern outskirts of Kholmsk. 03.09.2018.
Eobiana japonica (Bolivar, 1890) - Japanese Horse jump

distribution. Russia: Sakhalin Oblast (Sakhalin, Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup). – Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu). [Storozhenko, 2005]

Storozhenko S. Yu. 2005. Rastitel ' i zhivotnyj mir ostrova Sakhalin (Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo sakhalinskogo proekt) [Plant and animal world of Sakhalin Island (Materials of the International Sakhalin Project)]. Issue: 2 2. pp. 106-121.

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17.02.2019 8:32, Ольга Титова

February 3 is a rare sunny day in the last winter month. On the southwestern coast of Sakhalin, February is the coldest month of the year, usually January is the coldest month, but on the coasts there is a shift by a month. So February is the middle of our Kholm winter. April 20 - a steady transition of temperature through zero. On February 8, this year's minimum temperature was -20, 4 C, which is only two tenths higher than the lowest temperature recorded in 1942 from observations since 1908. During the day, the maximum is -18 s.
A month earlier this year, eagles appeared. Maybe because there isn't much snow.

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28.02.2019 10:37, Ольга Титова

Surprisingly, all the cicadas are collected in 2016.
Ricania japonica Melichar, 1898 22.07.2016, Sochi
Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763) 20.07.2016 Krasnodar Territory, Rostov highway 21 km.
Cicadetta yezoensis (Matsumura, 1898)5.09.2016, Southern Sakhalin, near Kholmsk.
Determinant of insects of the Far East of the USSR. Volume 2. Equidoptera and hemiptera. Page 316

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07.04.2019 13:37, Ольга Титова

Good Sunday evening!
A trifle, but nice-Synanthedon tipuliformis (Clerck, 1759). From currant twigs delivered 10 days ago. Outside, temperatures are still below freezing.
I looked at the Annotated catalog of DV 2016, but the currant glasshouse was never specified for Sakhalin, although works on it have already been published.

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06.05.2019 13:08, Ольга Титова

18.08.2019 11:52, Ольга Титова

In the spring, the photos were not loaded, so I'm just posting the material now, especially since there is a result.
Synegia ichinosawana moth, whose forage plant is holly, was found in the September harvest last year. I remember that the butterfly is not bright, attracted my attention with a golden hue. Since my fishing spot is not located near the forest, but near hills where holly does not grow, I decided to start the season by searching for holly in the area.
On May 4, along the ridge, I reached a slope with a valley forest, in which I began searching. Met in this forest interesting things. Here is a hydrangea petiolate, even one last year's inflorescence was preserved.

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18.08.2019 11:55, Ольга Титова

Here is such a flower symplocarpus bud-leaved, an alien of the Cretaceous period. The holly trees were in the middle of the slope and looked rather low to me. When I picked up the twigs, I realized that they seemed to be crawling down the slope. Because of the bending to the ground, the plants seem low, so later raised ferns and other tall grasses hide them. No wonder I don't see them in the summer. Moreover, they grow in a limited area. In the remaining days of May, I went completely down the slope along the river and did not find any more holly trees.

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18.08.2019 12:01, Ольга Титова

The story continues. At the beginning of August, I still did not find these holly trees. And on a tip from E. A. B., Synegia ichinosawana should be right next to them. I went to the village. Pioneers, where a great place with this plant, and even out of the blue, and not on a slope with a slope of 60 degrees. There are both low and fairly high holly trees here. And, indeed, when the plant was startled, moths began to rise around the plant. They seemed to fly under the leaves of neighboring ferns, which were surrounded by holly trees. This was the species Synegia ichinosawana (Matsumura, 1925) that has been troubling my soul for so long. It is distributed in Russia in the south of Sakhalin and South-Kur. (Iturup Island, Kunashir). Outside the country, only in Japan (Hokkaido, Rebun, Honshu). Island endemic!

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26.08.2019 4:53, Ольга Титова

This year, Phymatopus japonicus Inoue, 1982 managed to catch the beginning of summer. The view flies over the high-grass hills. But not over the whole hill, but on a plot of 20 meters at the base of the hill, where it is quite wet. The flight of a thin worm can be called pendulum-like, in the second photo I tried to shoot in flight.

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26.08.2019 4:58, Ольга Титова

At the end of the flight, it sits on the underside of the leaves. If you touch a leaf, it falls and doesn't move.

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