Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Theclinae → tribe Theclini → genus Favonius → species Favonius quercus

Species name(s)

Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Teratozephyrus quercus = Zephyrus quercus = Quercusia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Papilio quercus Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio epeus Sulzer, 1776 = Neozephirus quercus = Neozephyrus quercus Linnaeus, 1758. [3, 9, 10, 85]

Purple Hairstreak.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8537

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

14—15 mm.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Teratozephyrus quercus; Zephyrus quercus. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands,Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia , Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus. [28].

Subspecies of Favonius quercus

Quercusia quercus bellus Gerhard, 1853. [187]
F. q. caerulea Schwingenschuss, 1953. [187]
F. q. depuncta Lempke, 1955. [187]
F. q. iberica (Staudinger, 1901). [9]
F. q. infraflavomaculata Lempke, 1955. [187]
F. q. inframaculata Lempke, 1955. [187]
F. q. interjectus (Verity, 1919). [9]
F. q. longicauda Riley, 1921. [187]
F. q. longicaudatus (Riley, 1921). [9]
F. q. violacea Niepelt, 1914. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Evgeny Komarov.

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)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org