Acerbia alpina (Quensel, 1802)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Acerbia → species Acerbia alpina

Species name(s)

Acerbia alpina (Quensel, 1802) = Bombyx alpina Quensel, 1802 = Arctia thulea Dalman, 1823 = Hyphoraia alpina sibirica O. Bang-Haas, 1927. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#15. Severo-Uralsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #22. Krasnoyarsky*; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #32. Chukotsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky*; #35. Sredne-Okhotsky.

* 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

Norway, Finland and Sweden. [1].
Norway (mainland), Russia, Finland, Sweden. [10].
Regions of Russia: Eastern Yakutia, Gorno-Altaisk, Trans-Baikal, Krasnoyarsk (?) Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, North Yenisei North Okhotsk (?), The North-Ural, Average Okhotsk, Tuva, Chukotka, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Taraxacum, Vaccinium, Salix herbacea. [28].

Subspecies of Acerbia alpina

Acerbia alpina johanseni (Bang-Haas, 1927). [9]
A. a. sibirica Bang-Haas, 1927. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svyatoslav Knyazev.

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