Abstract

The work is devoted to the study of the fauna of the geometer moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in the Ustyurt State Nature Reserve, a little-studied territory of Kazakhstan. The Ustyurt State Reserve is located in the southwestern part of the Ustyurt plateau on the territory of the Karakiya district of the Mangistau region (Southwestern Kazakhstan). The basis for the work was the authors’ own collections, as well as collection materials from the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Bavarian State Zoological Collections (Germany). In the course of the work, 32 species of moths were collected. The species composition and arealogical structure of the geometer moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of the reserve have been analyzed.

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