MIMAS CHRISTOPHI (Staudinger, 1887)

TAXONOMY

Smerinthus christophi Staudinger, 1887, in Romanoff (ed.), Mém. Lépid. 3: 162. Type locality: [Russia, Primorskiy Kray,] Wladiwostok [Vladivostok].

ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 59--77mm.

ADULT BIOLOGY

In the Russian Far East, a lowland species of mixed and pure deciduous woodland characterized by Quercus mongolica (Izerskiy, 1999b).

FLIGHT-TIME

Japan: 12.v-21.viii (Honshu); vi-vii (Hokkaido). Russia: 27.v (Primorskiy Kray); 4.vi (Primorskiy Kray); 26.vi (Amurskaya); 3-21.vii (Khabarovsk Kray); 7-28.vii (Primorskiy Kray); 18.viii (Primorskiy Kray).

Park et al. (1999) give late May until late August as the flight period in Korea.

EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Recorded in Primorskiy Kray, Russia, on Alnus hirsuta (Derzhavets, 1984); however, Izerskiy (1999b) also lists Tilia, Acer, Ulmus, Salix and Betula.

Recorded in Korea on Alnus japonica, Quercus dentata, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica and Tilia amurensis (Park et al., 1999).

PARASITOIDS

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Heilongjiang; Hubei; ?Hunan.

South Korea: Kyonggi Prov. (Cheongpyong; Mungji-san); Kangwon Prov. (Seolak-san; Chuncheon); Cheju Prov. (Cheju-do; Ora-dong).

Japan: Hokkaido (Hakodate; Tesio; Junsai Numa; Tokachi; Obiniro); Honshu (Tokyo; Nikko; Bandai Heights; Mt. Akagi; Kirizumi Spa; Kamasawa; Karuizawa; Uchiyama; Kurokawa; Myoko; Bushi; Yamazumi; Ohdaru Spa; Kiyasato, 1300m); Shikoku; Kyushu.

Russia: Amurskaya (Belogorsk); Khabarovsk Kray (Slavyanka; Khabarovsk; Bikin; Boycovo); Primorskiy Kray (Andreevka; Khasan; Primorskiy; Vladivostok; Narva; Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve); Sakhalin Island.

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Russian Far East, northeastern China, South Korea and northern and central Japan.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION