Penthophera morio (Linnaeus, 1767)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Lymantriinae → tribe Orgyiini → genus Penthophera → species Penthophera morio

Species name(s)

Penthophera morio (Linnaeus, 1767) = Bombyx morio Linnaeus, 1767 = Pentophora caucasia Heylaerts, 1887 = Hypogymna morio = Penthoptera morio. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#10. Sredne-Volzhsky*; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

* 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

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasian, West Caucasian (?) Mid-Volzhsky (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrej Makara.

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