New records of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Myanmar based on DNA barcodes and morphological data

Abstract

An integrative study of the Indo-Burmese Geometridae in the collection of the Russian Museum of Biodiversity Hotspots (RMBH, Russia) revealed six newly recorded species for the fauna of Myanmar, i.e., Plutodes costatus (Butler, 1886), Pogonopygia nigralbata Warren, 1894, Mixochlora vittata (Moore, 1867), Pelagodes bellula Han & Xue, 2011, Agathia carissima Butler, 1878 and A. codina Swinhoe, 1892. The occurrence of P. bellula is the first record of this taxon outside the Tibetan Plateau. Our findings highlight that the distribution of several Oriental geometrids could be broader than was previously suggested.

To the knowledge of the genus Phyllodes Boisduval, 1832 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae) from Laos

“…However, there are several distribution gaps in the ranges of these species, especially, in poorly studied countries such as Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. Similar situation may be seen with some other widely distributed moths, which until recently had been possessing "white spots" in their ranges within the territories of these countries (Spitsyn et al, 2015(Spitsyn et al, , 2017. New data on distribution of Phyllodes species in Laos is given below.…”