Maniola telmessia (Zeller, 1847)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Maniolini → genus Maniola → species Maniola telmessia

Species name(s)

Maniola telmessia (Zeller, 1847) = telmessia (Zeller, 1847) = Epinephele pallescens Butler, 1868 = Epinephele cypricola Graves 1928 = Epinephele bipupillata Pionneau, 1937 = Epinephele ornata Turati, 1930. [9, 10, 187]

Turkish Meadow Brown.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Greece. [1].
Dodecanese Islands, North Aegean. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Maniola telmessia

Maniola telmessia marinigrans Verity, 1937. [187]
M. t. pelekasii Kattulas & Koutsaftikis, 1976. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Igal Oz.

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
[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