Panthea coenobita (Esper, 1785)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Pantheinae → genus Panthea → species Panthea coenobita

Species name(s)

Panthea coenobita (Esper, 1785) = Bombyx coenobita Esper, 1785. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8207

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

20—25 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden,Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Middle-Volga, Sredneobskaya,South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
The area - north-east Europe, there is less storou in the west and south. In the mountains - up to 1500 m. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - from 2 to 2.5 cm, mottled color, black and white, hind wings greyish, with dark spots. The abdomen is dark, to black. [5].

General info about Imago

Habitats: coniferous forest edge and with meadows, conifer nurseries. [5].

Imago lifespan

Flight from early May to early August. [5].

General info about Larva

Pupation is on the ground near the trunk of the tree. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Pinus, Abies, Larix. [28].
Pine, spruce. [5].

Larva lifespan

From August to early September. [5].

Subspecies of Panthea coenobita

Panthea coenobita idea Bryk, 1948. [187]
P. c. ussuriensis Warnecke, 1916. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Andrey Ponomarev.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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