Wheeleria spilodactylus (Curtis, 1827)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Wheeleria spilodactylus (Curtis, 1827) = Merrifieldia spilodactylus Curtis, 1827 = Pterophorus spilodactylus Curtis, 1827 = Aciptilus confusus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Merrifieldia spilodactylus. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Corsica, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sardinia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, the British Isles, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia, North Aegean, Ukraine, France ( mainland). [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian. [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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