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

Phyllodes Boisduval, 1832 is a small genus of moths, which belongs to the subfamily Calpinae Boisduval, 1840 of the family Erebidae Leach, [1815] (Zahiri et al., 2012) distributed within the Indo-Australian tropics (Holloway, 2005). Two species, P. consobrina Westwood, 1848 and P. eyndhovii Vollenhoyen, 1858, are widespread in Southeast and South Asia (Kononenko & Pinratana, 2005). 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, 2017, 2018; Spitsyn & Bolotov, 2018). New data on distribution of Phyllodes species in Laos is given below. The moth specimens were collected using two ultraviolet lamps, i.e. Medium 250 WSB/ E24-E23 250 Watt Mercury Vapor-Clear Self Ballasted (USA) and F15W/T8/Quantum Black Light (Germany). The specimens were prepared and dissected according to the standard approach, which was described in our previous paper in details (Spitsyn et al., 2016). Images of specimens were taken by Canon EOS 650D camera with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM (Japan). Studied specimens are deposited in the Russian Museum of Biodiversity Hotspots (RMBH), Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Arkhangelsk, Russia.