Merrifieldia malacodactylus (Zeller, 1847)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pterophoroidea → family Pterophoridae → subfamily Pterophorinae → genus Merrifieldia → species Merrifieldia malacodactylus

Species name(s)

Merrifieldia malacodactylus (Zeller, 1847) = Merrifieldia spicidactyla Chrétien, 1923 = Merrifieldia moulignieri Nel, 1991 = Pterophorus malacodactylus Zeller, 1847 = Pterophorus meristodactylus Zeller, 1852 = Alucita indocta Meyrick, 1913 = Alucita subtilis Caradja, 1920 = Alucita parca Meyrick, 1921 = Alucita subcretosa Meyrick, 1922 = Alucita phaeoschista Meyrick, 1923 = Alucita spicidactyla Chrétien, 1923 = Alucita rayatella Amsel, 1959 = Aciptilia livadiensis Zagulajev & Filippova, 1976 = Merrifieldia garrigae Bigot & Picard, 1989 = Merrifieldia inopinata Bigot, Nel & Picard, 1993. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Merrifieldia spicidactyla Chrétien, 1923; Merrifieldia moulignieri Nel, 1991. [85].

Distribution

Spain, Portugal, France. [1].
Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Corsica. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, Central European, Middle-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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