Merrifieldia tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pterophoroidea → family Pterophoridae → subfamily Pterophorinae → genus Merrifieldia → species Merrifieldia tridactyla

Species name(s)

Merrifieldia tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) = Merrifieldia icterodactylus Mann, 1855 = Merrifieldia menthae Chrétien, 1925 = Alucita tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 = Pterophorus fuscolimbatus Duponchel, 1844 = Pterophorus icterodactylus Mann, 1855 = Alucita icterodactyla noctis Caradja, 1920 = Alucita baliodactyla menthae Chrétien, 1925 = Alucita icterodactyla phillipsi Huggins, 1955 = Aciptilia exilidactyla Buszko, 1975 = Merrifieldia neli Bigot & Picard, 1989. [9, 10, 85]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8950

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Merrifieldia icterodactylus Mann, 1855; Merrifieldia menthae Chrétien, 1925. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Corsica, Lithuania, Sardinia. [1].
Spain, Corsica, France. [1].
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania,Sardinia, Slovakia, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, Central European, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Subspecies of Merrifieldia tridactyla

Pterophorus icterodactylus phillipsi Huggins, 1955. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Zoran Bozovic.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org