SPHINGULUS MUS Staudinger, 1887

TAXONOMY

Sphingulus mus Staudinger, 1887, in Romanoff (ed.), Mém. Lépid. 3: 156. Type locality: [Russia, Primorskiy Kray,] Suifun [Suifen river].

Synonym. Sphingulus mus taishanis Mell, 1937, Dt. ent. Z., Berl. 1937: 8. Type locality: China, Shantung [Shandong], Taishan [Tai Shan], 1550m.

ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 57--60mm.

ADULT BIOLOGY

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

FLIGHT-TIME

China: v (Shanxi); 10-13.v (Beijing); vii (Heilongjiang); 28.vi-11.vii (Hubei); 4.viii (Shandong). Russia: vi (Khabarovsk); vi (Primorskiy Kray); 19.vi-viii (Primorskiy Kray); 17.vii (Amurskaya).

In northern China, Yang (1978) states that S. mus has only one generation per year during May and June; however, captures from northeastern China and the Russian Far East indicate a partial second brood during July and August in some years.

Park et al. (1999) give June-July as the flight period in Korea.

EARLY STAGES

OVUM: Unknown.

LARVA: Unknown.

PUPA: Unknown.

Larval hostplants. Unknown in the wild, but has been reared on Fraxinus in captivity (Izerskiy, 1999b).

PARASITOIDS

Unknown.

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Heilongjiang (Harbin; Lalin); Beijing (Fangshan); Shandong (Tai Shan, 1550m); Shanxi (Taiyue Shan); Shaanxi; Henan; Zhejiang; Hubei (Shennongjia; Zigui, 300m); Hunan.

Known already from northeastern China, the records from the Taiyue Shan, Shanxi and Hubei (AAUH, SIES, IZAS) represent a considerable southwestward extension of the known range of S. mus.

North Korea: North Hamgyong Prov. (Charyung; Gyungsung).

South Korea: Kyonggi Prov. (Gwangleung); Kangwon Prov. (Gwangduk-san; Seolak-san; Woljeong Temple; Jeombong-san); South Kyongsang Prov. (Hamyang).

Russia: Amurskaya (Obluch'e); Khabarovsk Kray (Khabarovsk); Primorskiy Kray (Kaymanovka; Primorskiy; Barabash; Khasan; Jankowski Peninsula; Suifen River; Vladivostok; Ussuriysk; Gribnoye).

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Southeastern Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula south into eastern China.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION

Holarctic; eastern Palaearctic region. Pleistocene refuge: Monocentric -- Manchurian refuge.