Muschampia tessellum (Hubner, 1803)

Имаго (Muschampia tessellum)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → tribe Pyrgini → genus Muschampia → species Muschampia tessellum

Species name(s)

Muschampia tessellum (Hubner, 1803) = Papilio tessellum Hübner, [1800-1803] = hibisci Boeber, 1812 = mazzola Ochsenheimer, 1816 = Syrichtus tessellum.

Tessellated Skipper

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8391

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1]. Peter Khramov.
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga (?), Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3]. Peter Khramov.
Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine. [10]. Peter Khramov.
Kazakhstan Personal communication. Alexander Belousov.

Larva food plants

Phlomis samia. [28]. Peter Khramov.

Subspecies Muschampia tessellum

M. t. cribrelloides Warren, 1926.
M. t. dilutior Rühl.
M. t. nigricans Mabille, 1909.
M. t. nigricans Mabille, 1909.
M. t. nobilis Staudinger, 1882.
M. t. nomas Lederer, 1855.
M. t. protheon Rambur, 1858.
M. t. tersa Evans, 1949.

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Shamil Murtazin.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

Color 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
[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
Alexander Belousov, personal communication