The plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of East Kazakhstan

East Kazakhstan region is located in the eastern part of the Republic of Kazakhstan, bordering on Russia and China. The favorable geographical position of the region causes a variety of natural landscapes, where forests and mountains adjoin with deserts. Most of the territory is located in the Altai Mountains, which indicates the proximity of the fauna to the South-Siberian mountain species, on one hand, and on the other hand, there is a connection with the fauna of Central Asia. All this determines the richness and diversity of the insect fauna, including that of plume moths. This study is a continuation of our research on Pterophoridae in the vast territory of Kazakhstan (Ustjuzhanin, 1996; Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2007, 2008, 2014; Ustjuzhanin et al., 2016; Trofimova et al., 2016). The available information on plume moths of East Kazakhstan in the above works is not enough and amounts to 16 species. Due to the efforts of colleagues entomologists, who has been collecting material for many years, the species composition of the Pterophoridae of the East Kazakhstan region increased by more than 3 times and currently is 54 species. New for East Kazakhstan species are asterisked (*).