Ascotis selenaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Ascotis → species Ascotis selenaria

Species name(s)

Ascotis selenaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775).

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#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; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

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

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Russia, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland)Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk (?), The Lower Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside , Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals (?) Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Prunus, Crataegus. [28].

Subspecies of Ascotis selenaria

Ascotis selenaria artemis (Staudinger, 1897). [9]
A. s. dianaria (Hubner, 1817). [10]
A. s. ijimai Inoue, 1955. [187]
A. s. kaolina Bryk, 1948. [187]
A. s. reciprocaria Walker, 1860. [187]
A. s. selenaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Sergey Talanov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org