Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Имаго Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Notodontidae → subfamily Thaumetopoeinae → genus Thaumetopoea → species Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Species name(s)

Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = nigra Bang-Haas, 1910 = obscura Vorbrodt & Müller-Rutz, 1914 = convergens Dannehl, 1925 = bicolor Reisser, 1928 = pujoli Agenjo, 1941 = cancioi Agenjo, 1941 = clara Agenjo, 1941 = vareai Agenjo, 1941 = galaica Palanca Soler & Castan Lanaspa & Calle Pascual, 1982. [9, 10]

Pine Procession Moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8362

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Имаго Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Portugal, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of, Switzerland. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Moldova, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sicily, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland. [10].

General info about Larva

У гусениц — ядовитые волоски. Так же, как и гусеницы других походных шелкопрядов, личинки выстраиваются в процессии для походов от гнезда до места кормежки и обратно. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Pinus. [28].

Subspecies of Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Thaumetopoea pityocampa orana (Staudinger, 1901). [9]
T. p. pityocampa. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015