1909 at 3600m elevation at a location Kozhanchikov calls the Map Pass in the Pamir Mountains. According to Trofimova the label on the specimen is spelled slightly differently and that it refers to the Mats River in the Wakhan Range in southern Gorno-Badakhshan in eastern Tajikistan. Two more males were collected 19 July 1961 at 3200 m elevation at a location called "Angoudar" in the mountains around the city of Khorugh, also in southern Gorno-Badakhshan. Its distribution is thus sandwiched between known populations of L. selenophora in central Afghanistan to the south and those to the north in the further stretches of the Pamirs. Ecology Practically nothing is known about the ecology, and larvae or females have never been seen. Males have been collected from late June to mid-July at high elevations of 3200 to 3600 m in mountain regions. References Moths described in 1950 Lymantriinae