Lygephila craccae (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Erebinae → tribe Toxocampini → genus Lygephila → species Lygephila craccae

Species name(s)

Lygephila craccae (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Lygephila herrerai Yela, 1990 = Noctua craccae Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena nigricollis Villiers, 1789 = Ophiusa craccae lutosa Warren, 1913 = Toxocampa craccae caliginosa Schawerda, 1931 = Lygephila (Lygephila) craccae. [9, 10, 85]

Scarce Blackneck.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny*; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Lygephila herrerai. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part, Finland, France , Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Spain. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania?Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia , Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West (?), The European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, Seaside, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South -Kurilsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Vicia. [28].

Subspecies of Lygephila craccae

Lygephila craccae centralasiae (Sheljuzhko, 1955). [9]
L. c. grisea (Warren, 1913). [9]
L. c. laevigata (Warren, 1913). [9]
L. c. riata (Rungs, 1952). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Paolo Mazzei.

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
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[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