Phycitodes lacteella

Phycitodes lacteella (Rothschild, 1915) (Figs 23–24) Material examined: Zaporizhzhia reg., Melitopol distr., Bohatyr [Altahyr] vill., 21.VII, 24.VII and 30.VII.2000, 3♂ 1♀ V. Getmanchuk leg.; gen. prep. ♂855.25s, ♀861.25s, ♂862.25s, ♂863.25g V. Yepishin. Zaporizhzhia reg., Polohy distr., Kamiani Mohyly Reserve, 3–4.VIII.2018, 1♀ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 447.20g O. Bidzilya. Zaporizhzhia reg., Zaporizhzhia city, Khortytsia Island, Balka [Arroyo] Savutina, 15.VIII.2018, 1♂ V. Mushynskyi & O. Zhakov leg.; gen. prep. 264/18s O. Bidzilya. (all VYe). Distribution in Ukraine: Kyiv reg.: Yepishin et al. 2021b: 374. Chernihiv reg.: Govorun et al. 2003: 184, 2004: 35; Panasyura & Govorun 2012: 30. Sumy reg.: Govorun 2003a: 51, 2003b: 65, 2008a: 42, 2009: 114, 2018a: 8, 2018b: 42; Govorun & Latyshev 2014: 9; Govorun & Ptashenchuk 2023: 28; Govorun et al. 2023: 357, 2024b: 76. Cherkasy reg.: Govorun 2003c: 199. Poltava reg.: Govorun 2009: 114. Kharkiv reg.: Guglya & Karolinskiy 2014: 19; Karolinskiy et al. 2018: 80. Ivano-Frankivsk reg.: Bidzilya et al. 2006: 32. Odesa reg.: Yepishin et al. 2024: 125. Mykolaiv reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Kherson reg.: Govorun 2008b: 52. Luhansk reg.: Bidzilya 1995: 37; Pak 1998b: 216; Demyanenko 2019: 162, 2022: 20. Crimea: Budashkin 1992: 27, 2004: 345, 2006: 276; Guglya 2014: 218. First record from Zaporizhzhia region. Remarks. In Ukraine, especially in its South-Eastern regions, non-typical forms of this species are found, whose forewing pattern can range from completely white to very melanistic, even black, in contrast to the creamywhite colour of typical forms (Figs 23–24).