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Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in the South of Western Siberia Ecologica Montenegrina 38: 155-157 (2020) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38.23 New finding of Convolvulus hawkmoth − Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in the south of Western Siberia ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV1,2* & IGOR VOLGIN1 1Altai State University, Lenina pr. 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. 2Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Received: 29 November 2020│ Accepted by V. Pešić: 13 December 2020 │ Published online: 16 December 2020. The distribution of Hawk-Moths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in the Asian portion of Russia and in the adjacent countries (Kazakhstan, Mongolia) is rather well studied (Derzhavets 1977; Yakovlev et al. 2015; Anikin et al. 2016; Sinev 2019; Knyazev 2020; Pittaway 2020; Pittaway & Kitching 2020), though in the recent years many new faunistic foundings have been recorded (Beljaev 2003; Yakovlev & Doroshkin 2005, 2017; Yakovlev, Ustyuzhanin & Doroshkin 2005; Dubatolov & Titov 2011; Yakovlev 2011; Dubatolov 2012; Dubatolov & Yakovlev 2013; Koshkin & Bezborodov 2013, 2019; Yakovlev, Dubatolov & Titov 2013; Koshkin et al. 2015; Koshkin & Kostyunin 2017; Rybalkin & Yakovlev 2017). Figure 1. Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758), male, Russia, Altai Krai, near Barnaul, Turina Gora, 4.x.2020, leg. I. Volgin (private collection of I. Volgin, Barnaul, Russia). Ecologica Montenegrina, 38, 2020, 155-157 NEW FINDING OF CONVOLVULUS HAWKMOTH IN THE SOUTH OF WESTERN SIBERIA Convolvulus hawkmoth − Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758) is one on the most widely spread species of hawk moths on the planet. It is widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Oceania (Pittaway 2020; Pittaway & Kitching 2020). Though in Siberia and the adjacent countries it was recorded only locally. Thus, for Mongolia, the species is known on the unique specimen collected in the Trans-Altai Gobi (Yakovlev et al. 2015). It is regularly found in Omsk region (Knyazev 2020), however, it is not reliably known for other territories of Western Siberia: Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Tomsk regions, Altai Krai, Altai Republics, Tuva, Khakassia. The indication for Barnaul (Pittaway & Kitching 2020) is not accompanied by the data on the specimens. In 4 October 2020, I. Volgin collected one male of A. convolvuli in the vicinity of Barnaul (Turina Gora) (Fig. 1). Thus, the founding of A. convolvuli on the territory of Altai Krai is reliably confirmed. The reliable localities of A. convolvuli in Western Siberia are provided on the map (Fig. 2). Figure 2. Distributional map of Agrius convolvuli (Linnaeus, 1758) in Western Siberia. References Anikin, V.V., Baryshnikova, S.V., Beljaev, E.A., Dubatolov, V.V., Efetov, K.A., Zolotuhin, V.V., Kovtunovich, V.N., Kozlov, M.V., Kononenko, V.S., Lvovsky, A.L., Nedoshivina, S.V., Ponomarenko, M.G., Sinev, S.Y., Streltsov, A.N., Ustjuzhanin, P.Y., Chistyakov, Y.A. & Yakovlev, R.V. (2016) Annotated catalogue of the insects of Russian Far East. Volume II. Lepidoptera. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 812 pp. [in Russian] Beljaev, E.A. (2003) Acosmeryx naga Moore (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) - new species of Hawk Moths for the fauna of Russia. Far Eastern Entomologist, (131), 6−8. Derzhavets, Yu.A. (1977) Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) of Mongolia. Nasekomye Mongolii, 5, 642−648. [in Russian] Dubatolov, V.V. 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