Saturnia spini (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Saturniidae → subfamily Saturniinae → tribe Saturniini → genus Saturnia → subgenus Eudia → species Saturnia spini

Species name(s)

Saturnia (Eudia) spini (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Eudia spini ([Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775) = Phalaena (Attacus) pavonia media Esper, 1782 = Saturnia spini spini. [3, 9, 10]

Blue-spot Hairstreak.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky*; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky*; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

* 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, White.

Over-wintering stage

Pupa.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Eudia spini. [3].

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey - The European part of the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland) ?, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Croatia, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasian (?), West Caucasian (?), Lower Volga (?), South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Rhamnus, Frangula alnus, also Prunus, Rosa, Crataegus, Ulmus, Alnus, Salix, Populus. [28].

Overwintering stage

Chrysalis [PC106].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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
[PC106] Sergei Kotov