Isauria dilucidella ( Duponchel, 1836 )

Yepishin, Viktor, Khalaim, Yevhenii, Demyanenko, Serhii, Govorun, Oleksandr, Novytskyi, Sergiy & Tsykal, Serhii, 2025, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine, Zootaxa 5696 (1), pp. 1-27 : 7-8

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.1
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scientific name	Isauria dilucidella ( Duponchel, 1836 )
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Isauria dilucidella ( Duponchel, 1836)

( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–10 )

Material examined: Kyiv reg., Obukhiv distr. , 1 km NW of Velykyi Bukryn vill., 27.VII.2022, 1♀ V. Yepishin leg.

Distribution in Ukraine: Chernihiv reg.: Panasyura & Govorun 2011: 119, 2012: 30. Sumy reg.: Govorun 2009: 114, 2018b: 42, 2020: 46; Govorun & Latyshev 2014: 9. Ternopil reg.: Toll 1939: 149 ( Megasis ilignella ). Khmelnytskyi reg.: Andrianov 2012 –2025. Poltava reg.: Yepishin et al. 2021b: 371. Kharkiv reg.: Govorun 2009: 114; Guglya & Karolinskiy 2014: 19 ( Sciota hostilis [misident.]); Karolinskiy et al. 2017: 21, 2018: 78. Odesa reg.:

Yepishin et al. 2021b: 371; Yepishin et al. 2024: 120 ( Pyla fusca [misident.]), 121–122. Mykolaiv reg.: Obraztsov 1935a: 152 ( Megasis ilignella ). Kherson reg.: Yepishin et al. 2021b: 371. Zaporizhzhia & Donetsk regs (Kamiani Mohyly Reserve): Bidzilya et al. 2001: 88. Donetsk reg.: Pak & Yaroshenko 2001a: 28 ( Divona ), 2001b: 147 ( Divona ). Luhansk reg.: Pak 1998b: 216 ( Divona ); Pak & Yaroshenko 2001b: 147 ( Divona ); Geryak et al. 2013: 9; Demyanenko et al. 2018: 258; Demyanenko 2019: 161, 2022: 20. Crimea: Budashkin 1992: 25 ( Divona ), 2004: 344, 2006: 275. First record from Kyiv region.

Remarks. This species, quite common in the South, but is very rare and local in the North of the country. The first specimen from Kyiv region ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 9–10 ) was collected by attraction at night to an artificial light source in a mixed forest ( Pinus sylvestris , Robinia pseudoacacia , Carpinus ) on the raised and ravine-cut right bank of the Dnipro River.