Lycaena thersamon (Esper, 1784)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Lycaeninae → tribe Lycaenini → genus Lycaena → species Lycaena thersamon
Species name(s)
Lycaena thersamon (Esper, 1784) = Thersamonia thersamon = Papilio thersamon Esper, 1784 = omphale Klug, 1834. [9, 10, 85]
Lesser Fiery Copper.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8421
Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 2.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#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; #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
Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.
Detailed information with references
Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations
- Thersamonia thersamon. [85].
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Croatia, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European (?), Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Polygonum aviculare. [28].
Subspecies of Lycaena thersamon
- Thersamonia thersamon infracana Verity, 1946. [187]
- L. t. kurdistanica Riley, 1921. [187]
- L. t. militaris Graves, 1925. [187]
- L. t. omphale Klug, 1834. [187]
- L. t. persica (Bienert, [1870]). [9]
- L. t. xanthe Hübner, 1798/803. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Igor Sakhno, Valeria Tichenko. 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
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