Thetidia smaragdaria (Fabricius, 1787)

Имаго Thetidia smaragdaria

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Geometrinae → tribe Comibaenini → genus Thetidia → subgenus Antonechloris → species Thetidia smaragdaria

Species name(s)

Thetidia (Antonechloris) smaragdaria (Fabricius, 1787) = Antonechloris smaragdaria Fabricius, 1787 = Phalaena smaragdaria Fabricius, 1787 = Euchloris smaragrdaria maritima Prout, 1935 = alinea Burrows, 1900 = caeruleoviridis Burrows, 1900 = obsoleta Burrows, 1900 = unilinea Burrows, 1900 = Thetidia (Antonechloris) smaragdaria. [9, 10, PC]

Essex Emerald.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 8.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

28—32 mm.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Antonechloris smaragdaria. [PC74].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway (mainland), Poland, Russia,Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, 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, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay , of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside,Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 28-32 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

June July [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Yarrow (Achillea), wormwood (Artemísia), Tansy (Tanacetum) [PC93].

Subspecies of Thetidia smaragdaria

Thetidia smaragdaria amurensis Prout, 1935. [9]
T. s. anomica Prout, 1935. [9]
T. s. gigantea (Millière, 1874). [9]
T. s. gigantea (Milliere, 1874). [10]
T. s. maritima Prout, 1935. [187]
T. s. mongolica Staudinger, 1897. [9]
T. s. smaragdaria. [9]
T. s. smaragdaria (Fabricius, 1787). [10]
T. s. volgaria (Guenée, 1857). [9]
T. s. volgaria (Guenee, 1858). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Vladimir Bryukhov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Evgeny Komarov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC74] Evgeny Komarov
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov