Microloxia herbaria (Hubner, 1813)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Geometrinae → tribe Microloxiini → genus Microloxia → species Microloxia herbaria

Species name(s)

Microloxia herbaria (Hubner, 1813) = Geometra herbaria Hübner, [1813] = Geometra graminaria Zeller, 1849 = Nemoria bruandaria Millière, 1860 = monotona Reisser, 1926. [9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky*.

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

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia , North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk (?), The European Central Black Earth, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Helichrysum, Mentha, Teucrium, Artemisia, Prunus spinosa. [28].

Subspecies of Microloxia herbaria

Microloxia herbaria advolata (Eversmann, 1837). [10]
M. h. herbaria (Hubner, 1813). [10]
M. h. indecretata Walker, 1863. [187]
M. h. ruficornis Warren, 1897. [187]
M. h. virideciliata (Bubacek, 1926). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

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