To the knowledge of the fauna of Lepidoptera of Mongolia. The family prominent moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae)

An annotated catalogue of 21 species of prominent moths collected in Mongolia, mainly by the entomological division of the joint Russian-Mongolian complex biological expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2002–2005 and 2007–2008, is provided. Pterostoma grisea (Bremer, 1861) is reported for Mongolia for the first time. For some aimags the following species are listed for the first time: Cerura felina (Butler, 1877) for Selenge, Khentii and Dornod, C. przewalskii (Alphéraky, 1882) for Zavkhan and Govi-Altai, Furcula aeruginosa (Christoph, 1872) and Clostera curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) for Zavkhan, Notodonta torva (Hübner, 1803) for Zavkhan and Dornod, Pheosia rimosa Packard, 1864 for Khövsgöl and Dornod, Furcula furcula (Clerck, 1759), Nerice davidi Oberthür, 1881, Ptilodon capucina (Linnaeus, 1758), Phalera bucephala (Linnaeus, 1758) and Clostera anachoreta ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775) for Dornod, Clostera albosigma Fitch, 1856 for Zavkhan, Khövsgöl, Khentii and Dornod, Clostera anastomosis (Linnaeus, 1758) for Ulaanbaatar and Dornod, Clostera pigra (Hufnagel, 1766) for Khövsgöl and Dornod, and Pterotes eugenia (Staudinger, 1896) for Bayan-Ölgii. The type locality of Lepidoptera taxa described from the collections of the Lazarist missionary Armand David (1826–1900) from “le nord de la Chine” has been clarified.