Epione vespertaria Linnaeus, 1767

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Epionini → genus Epione → species Epione vespertaria

Species name(s)

Epione vespertaria Linnaeus, 1767 = Phalaena vespertaria Linnaeus, 1767 = paralellaria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) = Epione paralellaria. [3, 9]

Dark Bordered Beauty.

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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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

22—28 mm.

Flight time

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia . [1].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy,Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Populus, Alnus, Salix, Betula. [28].

Subspecies of Epione vespertaria

Epione vespertaria amura Wehrli, 1940. [9]
E. v. hespera Bryk, 1948. [187]
E. v. vespertaria. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org

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