Carcharodus alceae (Esper, 1780)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → genus Carcharodus → species Carcharodus alceae

Species name(s)

Carcharodus alceae (Esper, 1780) = Papilio alceae Esper, 1780 = malvarum Hoffmannsegg, 1804 = Spilothyrus aestiva Hormuzaki, 1897 = Hesperia australis Zeller, 1847 = Carcharodus claraminima Verity 1937 = Carcharodus claraustralis Verity 1937 = Carcharodus corsicus Picard 1948 = Carcharodus exigua Verity 1940 = Erynnis fulvocarens Verity, 1925 = Erynnis griseofulva Verity, 1924 = Erynnis magnaaustralis Verity, 1924 = Papilio malvarum Hoffmansegg, 1804 = Hesperia nostras Zeller, 1847 = Erynnis praeaustralis Verity, 1924. [9, 10, 187]

Mallow Skipper.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Portugal (mainland), Russia,Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West (?), The European Central Black Earth, the European Central, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural . [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Malva, Malva sylvestris, Malva moschata, Malva neglecta, Malva pusilla. [28].

Subspecies of Carcharodus alceae

Carcharodus alceae gooraisa Evans, 1949. [187]
C. a. insolatrix Le Cerf, 1913. [187]
C. a. swinhoei Watson, 1893. [9]
C. a. tripolina Verity, 1925. [187]
C. a. wissmanni Warnecke, 1934. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Igor Sakhno, Olga Cherepanova.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org