Spialia orbifer (Hubner, 1823)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Spialia orbifer (Hubner, 1823) = orbifer (Hübner, [1823]). [9, 10]

Orbed Red-underwing Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, the Lower Amur, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Rubus, Sanguisorba, Potentilla. [28].

Subspecies of Spialia orbifer

Spialia orbifer carnea (Reverdin, 1927). [9]
S. o. hilaris (Staudinger, 1901). [9]
S. o. lugens (Staudinger, 1886). [9]
S. o. orbifer. [9]
S. o. pseudolugens P. Gorbunov, 1995. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Yuriy Karpov, Boris Stradomsky.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

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
[PC1149] Alexander Belousov