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Ecologica Montenegrina 40: 68-74 (2021) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.40.5 The first record of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) in Europe with notes on its distribution in Russia SVYATOSLAV A. KNYAZEV1,2, PAVEL YU. GORBUNOV3, SERGEY F. MELYAKH4, SVETLANA V. NEDOSHIVINA5, NIKOLAI D. GREBENNIKOV6, ALEXEY YU. MATOV7 1Russian Entomological Society, Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya St, 14-16, Omsk, Russia, 644042 2Altai State University, Lenina St. 61, Barnaul, Russia, 656049 E-mail: [email protected] 3Institute of Plants and Animals Ecology, 8-Marta St., 202/3, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 620144. E-mail: [email protected] 4Ural research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, 22 Partsyezda, 50, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 620039 Email: [email protected] 5Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, pl. 100-letiya Lenina 4, Ulyanovsk, Russia, 432700 E-mail: [email protected] 6Independent researcher, Orenburg, Karagandinskaya str., 102-18, Russia, 460036, E-mail: [email protected] 7Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya Emb., 1, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 199034 E-mail: [email protected] Received: 11 January 2021│ Accepted by V. Pešić: 2 March 2021 │ Published online: 5 March 2021. Since 2018 we have information about the first specimen of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) collected in Orenburg region (Russia, Southern Ural) 28.VII.2018 by N.D. Grebennikov (Orenburg City). After that we made several expeditions to different localities in the South Urals to confirm the presence of this species there. In 2019 and 2020 we collected a series of fresh specimens of Catocala helena in Orenburg Region. One specimen was collected west of the Volga in Samara Region. In addition, there was a new observation of C. helena from Novosibirsk region on iNaturalist.org. This species has previously been recorded in Russia from the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ismagilov, Krivosheev 2020), Irkutsk Region (Knyazev 2011), Transbaikalia (type locality – Kyakhta in Republic of Buryatiya), Amur, Khabarovsk and Primorye territories in the Russian Far East as well as in Mongolia, Korea, China (Kononenko 2010). Thus, new finds significantly expand the known distribution of the species for more than 2500 km to the west. Material and methods. Moths were collected and observed by the following methods: using mercury lamps in the night time (in Samara Region and Republic of Bashkortostan), on the wine baits in the night time (in Orenburg Region) and one specimen was found in day time in an apartment building (Novosibirsk). All collected specimens are deposited in the collections mentioned in the material list. The mounted specimen and adult specimen in nature were photographed by a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera with Canon 100 mm USM macro lens and Nikon D7100 with AF Micro Nikkor 105 mm 1:2.8D. Ecologica Montenegrina, 40, 2021, 68-74 KNYAZEV ET AL. Figure 1. New localities of Catocala helena in Russia (red circles) and previously known distribution (green fill with black circles). Systematics Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (figs. 2,3,4) Material examined. RUSSIA: Samara Region, 1 specimen, Oktyabrsk town, 53°9'49.20"N, 48°40'14.61"E, at light, VII.2020, V. Yarutkina leg. (private collection of S.V. Nedoshivina, Ulyanovsk); Orenburg Region, 1♂, Orenburg District, Pavlovka village, 51°52'1.43"N, 54°57'42.03"E, at light, 28.VII.2018, N.D. Grebennikov (private collection of N.D. Grebennikov, Orenburg, Russia); Orenburg Region, 1♂,1♀, Sol- Iletsk District, Berdyanka river valley, 51°24'57.97"N, 55°24'3.23"E, at light, 24-26.07.2019, M. Rantala leg. (private collection of M. Rantala, Helsinki, Finland); Orenburg Region, 1♂1♀, Novoorsk District, 4 km NE of Zakumachnoye village, Big Kumak river, 51°16'19.19"N 59°11'18.13"E, at light, 23-24.VII.2019, S.F. Melyakh leg. (private collection of S.F. Melyakh, Ekaterinburg, Russia), 1♂1♀, same locality, at wine traps, 27-28.VII.2020, S.A. Knyazev and P.Yu. Gorbunov leg. (private collection of S.A. Knyazev, Omsk, Russia); Orenburg Region, 2♂, Gai District, 3 km N of Beloshapka village Guberlya Mts., Guberlya river, 51°14'45.64"N, 58° 4'51.74"E, at wine traps, 28-29.VII.2020, S.A. Knyazev and P.Yu. Gorbunov leg. (private collection of S.A. Knyazev, Omsk, Russia); 1♂, Orenburg Region, Belyaevka District, 3,5 km E of Novoorlovka village, Ural river, 51°23'14.09"N, 56°36'47.88"E, at wine traps, 29-30.VII.2020, S.A. Knyazev and P.Yu. Gorbunov leg. (private collection of S.A. Knyazev, Omsk, Russia); Novosibirsk Region, Novosibirsk City, Vatutina str., 54°59'27.24"N, 82°52'55.45"E, 2.VIII.2020, I.S. Sukhov (photo, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55131575). Bionomics. Optimal habitats for the species in Mongolian and Daurian parts of the species distribution area are dry summertime steppe creek valleys and gulleys with growing trees of Ulmus pumila (Ulmaceae) as well as sandy riverside slopes and terraces with groves of Ulmus pumila (Benedek, Balint 2013). Ulmus species were reported as the basic biotopical feature and as fodder plants (Dubatolov et al. 2004; Dubatolov, Dolgih 2009) similarly to those of a systematically close species Catocala deuteronympha Staudinger, 1861, that mostly occurs together with Catocala helena. The most numerous populations of Catocala helena were recorded in the valley of the Selenga and its large tributaries (А. Saldaitis, personal communication) in south-west Transbaikalia, where the species was originally described. Ecologica Montenegrina, 40, 2021, 68-74 69 THE FIRST RECORD OF CATOCALA HELENA IN EUROPE Figure 2. Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856, adult, Guberlya Mts., Orenburg Region, Russia (photo by S.A. Knyazev). Figure 3. Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856, adult specimen in nature Big Kumak river valley near Zakumachnoye village, Orenburg Region, Russia (photo by S.A. Knyazev). 70 KNYAZEV ET AL. Figure 4. Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856, adult specimen in nature, Guberlya Mts. (photo by P.Yu. Gorbunov). Figure 5. Habitat of Catocala helena in Orenburg Region, Guberlya Mts. (photo by S.A. Knyazev). Ecologica Montenegrina, 40, 2021, 68-74 71 THE FIRST RECORD OF CATOCALA HELENA IN EUROPE In new locations the species was found in the valleys of the rivers Volga, Ural and the tributaries of its basin– rivers Berdyanka, Guberlya, Big Kumak, further Ob` river where Ulmus laevis and U. pumila (supposedly being larval food plants there) grow. In the South Urals Catocala helena was attracted to the wine baits with the complex of the following species: Catocala deducta Eversmann, 1843, Catocala nupta (Linnaeus, 1767), Catocala orientalis Staudinger, 1877, Catocala fraxini (Linnaeus, 1758), Catocala lupina Herrich-Schäffer, 1851, Amphipyra pyramidea (Linnaeus, 1758), Amphipyra livida ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766). The flight period in different parts of the species range is from the end of July to the middle of August оr September. In the South Urals the beginning of moths flight period is recorded in the last third of July. Distribution. European part of Russia (Samara Region), South Urals (Republic of Bashkortostan, Orenburg Region), West Siberia (Novosibirsk Region), Irkutsk Region, Transbaikalia, Amur, Khabarovsk and Primorye territories in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korea, China (Kononenko 2010; Knyazev 2011). Discussion. We suppose that Catocala helena findings in West Siberia and in the Urals are due to fast natural expansion of the species habitat to the west at 50-55° north latitude as a result of human activity and climate change. The prerequisite for that was formed by emerged secondary habitat of Ulmus pumila in West Siberia in the form of numerous local populations of probable food plant (species of the genus Ulmus). It cannot be denied that in the South Urals there exists a local population of the species: findings in Orenburg Region have become pretty regular and numerous to make such conclusions possible. It may also be noted that on the basis of available data the presence of the species populations is possible in Saratov, Kurgan, Tyumen, Omsk Regions, Republics of Khakassia and Tyva of the Russian Federation as well as in the North Kazakhstan. In recent decades, there has been a similar expansion of some species of diurnal butterflies, such as Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758), Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) and some others, to Siberia (Knyazev, Kosterin 2003; Kosterin et al. 2007; Yakovlev et al. 2014). Figure 6. Habitat of Catocala helena in Orenburg Region, river Big Kumak near Zakumachnoye village. (photo by P.Yu. Gorbunov). 72 KNYAZEV ET AL. Figure 7. Habitat of Catocala helena in Orenburg Region, river Berdyanka near Belyaevka village (photo by P.Yu. Gorbunov). Aknowledgements The authors thank Markus Rantala (Helsinki, Finland) and I.S. Sukhov (Novosibirsk, Russia) for the permission to use their observations in the paper. We also thank Aidas Saldaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania) for Catocala helena range clarification. The research of S.V. Nedoshivina was supported by RFBR and Ulyanovsk Region, project number 19-44-730010. The work of Alexey Matov was performed in the frames of the state research project АААА-А19-119020690101-6. References Benedek, B., Balint, Z. (2013) Data to the Lepidoptera fauna of Mongolia: report on a high summer trip in 2010. Folia entomologica hungarica, 74, 147-156. 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    ©Ges. zur Förderung d. Erforschung von Insektenwanderungen e.V. München, download unter www.zobodat.at Atalanta (Juli 1993) 24(1 /2 ):2 0 7 -264, Farbtafeln XV-XVI, Würzburg, ISSN 0171-0079 Die generische Aufgliederung von Noctua L in n a e u s , 1758 (Lepldoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae) von HERBERT BECK, LUTZ KOBES & MATTI AHOLA eingegangen am 1.III. 1993 Zusammenfassung: Der Artenbestand der Gattung Noctua Linnaeus , gemäß der Aufstel­ lung bei Hartig & H einicke (1973), verteilt sich auf sieben Gattungen, zwei Gattungen sind für die Wissenschaft neu, drei wurden revltallsiert, eine wurde soeben als Divaena Fibig er , 1993 publiziert. Die Revision ist das Resultat zunächst von Beobachtungen an Eiern von ex ovo-Zuchten, dann von Untersuchungen der Larvalornamentik, der Larvalmorphologie (Mundwerkzeuge), des Imaginalhabitus und nicht zuletzt der männlichen Genitalmorpho­ logie. Die Kriterien, die für die Revision dieser komplexen Gattung angewandt wurden, wer­ den erläutert. Abstract: According to the list of Hartig & H einicke (1973), the species of Noctua Linnaeus are to be distributed on seven genera, two of them are new, three of them are re­ vived, one - Divaena Fibiger , 1993 - just has been published. The revision is the result of experiences with ex-ovo-breedings, the investigations of the pattern and morphology of the larvae and last not least the examination of male genitalia and wing pattern. Criterions taken for the revision are explained. Taxonomische Änderungen und Liste der berücksichtigten Noctua-Arten, Synonyme; soweit keine anderen Angaben, nach Poole (1989): Gattung Noctua Linnaeus , 1758 (Typus: pronuba Linnaeus , 1758) = Triphaena Ochsenheimer , 1816 = Tryphaena Meigen , 1831 = Xanthoptera Sodoffsky , 1837 Noctua pronuba Linnaeus , 1758 = connuba Hübner , [1822] = innuba (Treitschke , 1825) Noctua atlantica Warren , 1905 Gattung Paranoctua gen.
  • Strasbourg, 19 April 2013

    Strasbourg, 19 April 2013

    Strasbourg, 25 October 2013 T-PVS (2013) 17 [tpvs17e_2013.doc] CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF EUROPEAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL HABITATS Group of Experts on the Conservation of Invertebrates Tirana, Albania 23-24 September 2013 ---ooOoo--- REPORT Document prepared by the Directorate of Democratic Governance This document will not be distributed at the meeting. Please bring this copy. Ce document ne sera plus distribué en réunion. Prière de vous munir de cet exemplaire. T-PVS (2013) 17 - 2 - CONTENTS 1. Meeting report ................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Appendix 1: Agenda .......................................................................................................................... 6 3. Appendix 2: List of participants ........................................................................................................ 9 4. Appendix 3: Compilation of National Reports .................................................................................. 10 5. Appendix 4: Draft Recommendation on threats by neurotoxic insecticides to pollinators ................ 75 * * * The Standing Committee is invited to: 1. Take note of the report of the meeting; 2. Thank the Albanian government for the efficient preparation of the meeting and the excellent hospitality; 3. Continue with Bern Convention engagement with invertebrate conservation issues by further encouraging and monitoring national implementation of European Strategy for the Conservation
  • Noctuoid Moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae) of North-East Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region)

    Noctuoid Moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae) of North-East Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region)

    Ukrainian Journal of Ecology Ukrainian Journal of Ecology, 2017, 7(2), 142–164, doi: 10.15421/2017_32 ORIGINAL ARTICLE UDC 595.786 Noctuoid moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae) of North-East Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region) S.V. Titov1, A.V. Volynkin2,3, V.V. Dubatolov4, M. Černila5, S.M. Reznichenko6 & V.S. Bychkov7 1 The Research Centre for Environmental 'Monitoring', S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Lomova str. 64, KZ-140008, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Altai State University, Lenina pr. 61, Barnaul, RF-656049, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia 4 Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze str. 11, RF-630091, Novosibirsk, Russia E-mail: [email protected] 5 The Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, SI-1001, Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: [email protected] 6 Shcherbakty branch of the Republican methodical center of phytosanitary diagnostics and forecasts, Sovetov 44, KZ-141000, Sharbakty, Shcherbakty distr., Pavlodar Region. E-mail: [email protected] 7 Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Margulan, 44 Avenue Dostyk, st. Shevchenko 28, KZ-050010, Almaty, Kazakhstan. E-mail: [email protected] Submitted: 02.04.2017. Accepted: 23.05.2017 The paper contains data on the fauna of the Lepidoptera families Erebidae, Nolidae and Noctuidae of Pavlodar Region (North-East Kazakhstan). The check list includes 480 species (100 species of Erebidae, 8 species of Nolidae and 372 species of Noctuidae), 393 species are reported for the region for the first time. The map of collecting localities and pictures of the main landscapes of the region are presented.