Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) = Hesperia sertorius Hoffmannsegg, 1804 = Powellia aestiva Querci, 1932 = Powellia albodetersa Verity, 1929 = Powellia alioides Verity, 1926 = Spialia catenata Jöst 1957 = Spialia diffusa Jöst 1957 = Papilio eucrate Ochsenheimer, 1808 = Powellia gracilis Verity, 1919 = Hesperia minor Rebel, 1910 = Powellia parvula Verity, 1921 = Hesperia extrema Pfeiffer, 1938 = Powellia gavarniensis Warren, 1926 = Powellia guadarramensis Warren, 1925 = Spialia hibiscae Hemming 1936 = Papilio hibiscae Hübner, 1790-1793 = Powellia infraurata Verity, 1929 = Hesperia kempnyi Schawerda, 1919 = Spialia medioalbotersa Verity 1940 = Spialia postesselloides Verity 1938 = Powellia subgracilis Verity, 1921 = Hesperia subtusbrunnea Reverdin, 1922 = Hesperia tesselloides Herrich-Schäffer, 1845 = Syrichthus therapnoides Oberthür, 1910. [9, 10, 187]

Red Underwing Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania ?, Slovakia, Slovenia, France (mainland) Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Sanguisorba, Potentilla. [28].

Subspecies of Spialia sertorius

Spialia sertorius ali (Oberthür, 1881). [9]
S. s. anavalsae Coutsis, 1976. [187]
S. s. carnea Reverdin, 1927. [187]
S. s. hilaris Staudinger, 1901. [187]
S. s. lugens Staudinger, 1886. [187]
S. s. orbifer Hübner, 1823. [187]
S. s. sertorius. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Diego Reggianti.

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