Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Nymphalinae → tribe Nymphalini → genus Polygonia → species Polygonia egea
Species name(s)
Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775) = Nymphalis egea (Cramer, [1775]) = Papilio egea Cramer, [1775] = Papilio vau-album Esper, 1780 = Papilio I-album Esper, 1789 = L-album (Hübner, 1791) = triangulum (Fabricius, 1793) = f-album (Fabricius, 1793) = Polygonia albescens Stauder 1922 = Vanessa album Hübner, 1794 = Vanessa triangulum Fabricius, 1793 = Polygonia l-extincta Verity 1950 = Vanessa pallida Evans, 1932 = Vanessa f-album Fabricius, 1793 = Vanessa balucha Evans, 1932 = Polygonia autumnalis Stefanelli 1873. [9, 10, 187]
Southern Comma.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8618
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#11. Volgo-Donsky*; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.
* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.
Primary colors
Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), France (mainland) Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic ?, Switzerland ?, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don (?), East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].
- Kazakhstan [PC1149].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Parietaria officinalis. [28].
Subspecies of Polygonia egea
- Nymphalis egea egea. [9]
- P. e. interposita Staudinger, 1881. [187]
- P. e. undina (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890). [9]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Boris Lariushin, Igor Sakhno. 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
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
- [PC1149] Alexander Belousov
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