Mesotype didymata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Larentiinae → tribe Perizomini → genus Mesotype → species Mesotype didymata

Species name(s)

Mesotype didymata (Linnaeus, 1758) = Perizoma didymata Linnaeus, 1758 = Perizoma didymatum (Linnaeus, 1758). [9, 10, 85]

Twin-spot Carpet.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5629

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Perizoma didymata. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania,Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Northeast, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].

Subspecies of Mesotype didymata

Mesotype didymata didymata (Linnaeus, 1758). [10]
M. d. hethlandica (Rebel, 1910). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Vitaly Gumenuk.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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