To the knowledge of the fauna of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of Dzungarian Alatau, Kazakhstan

Abstract

The annotated list of 133 species of geometrids (Lepidoptera) from Dzungarian Alatau in Kazakhstan is given; 42 species are recorded for this ridge for the first time. The material is deposited in Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia) and in the private collection of the second author. The species Aplocera dzungarica Vasilenko, 1995, stat. resurr. is resurrected from subspecies to species. Diagnostic characters of the rare species Lycia degtjarevae Viidalepp, 1986 are summurized and differences from the alied species L. hirtaria (Clerck, 1759) are given. We established that the first species occurs in Central and Southern Kazakhstan, while reliable records of the latter one is known only from northern part of the country. Data on records of Xanthorhoe asiatica (Staudinger, 1882) and X. tauaria (Staudinger, 1892) on the territory of Russia belong to X. insperata (Djakonov, 1926) and X. dudkoi Vasilenko, 2009, respectively. A brief characteristics of the ecological structure of the geometrid fauna of Dzungarian Alatau is proposed. Features of species distribution on this territory are summurized

Keywords

• lepidoptera
• geometridae
• new localities
• fauna
• dzungarian alatau
• kazakhstan