Malacosoma alpicola (Staudinger, 1870)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Lasiocampoidea → family Lasiocampidae → subfamily Malacosomatinae → tribe Malacosomatini → genus Malacosoma → subgenus Malacosoma → species Malacosoma alpicola

Species name(s)

Malacosoma (Malacosoma) alpicola (Staudinger, 1870) = Malacosoma franconica Milliére 1863 = Malacosoma intermedia Millière 1875 = Bombyx prima Staudinger, 1887 = Malacosoma obscura Grünberg 1908 = Malacosoma othello Blachier 1889 = Malacosoma pallida Grünberg 1909 = Malacosoma cinnamomea Grünberg 1911 = Malacosoma castrensioides Wehrli 1919 = Malacosoma calabra Stauder 1921. [10, 187]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Switzerland. [1].
Austria, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Portugal (mainland), France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Salix, Rosa, Alchemilla, Polygonum, Euphorbia. [28].

Subspecies of Malacosoma alpicola

Malacosoma alpicola mixta Rothschild, 1925. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Diego Reggianti, Paolo Mazzei.

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
[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