Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Hesperiinae → tribe Gegenini → genus Gegenes → species Gegenes nostrodamus

Species name(s)

Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793) = Hesperia nostrodamus Fabricius, 1793 = proclea Walker, 1870 = Hesperia karsana Moore, [1875] = nostradamus = Philoodus nostrodamus = Genenes nostrodamus = Hesperia karsana Moore, 1874 = Gegenes megalegyna Verity 1940 = Pamphila proclea Walker, 1870 = Gegenes pumilionimima Verity 1931. [9, 10, 187]

Mediterranean Skipper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8367

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Portugal, Sicily, Turkey - The European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Crete, Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Turkey (European part), Croatia, Yugoslavia . [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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
[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

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