Marumba quercus (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Sphingidae → subfamily Smerinthinae → tribe Smerinthini → genus Marumba → species Marumba quercus

Species name(s)

Marumba quercus (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Sphix quercus Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = denisii (Fuessly, 1779) = brunnescens Rebel, 1910 = canescens Closs, 1922 = pallescens Closs, 1922 = costimacula O. Bang-Haas, 1938 = Marumba quercus mesopotamica O. Bang-Haas, 1938 = Marumba quercus schirasi O. Bang-Haas, 1938 = pallida Vilarrubia, 1973. [9, 10]

Oak Hawk-moth.

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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.

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

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Moldova, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic,Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European (?), Western Caucasus, Lower Volga (?) Mid-Volzhsky (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus. [28].

Subspecies of Marumba quercus

Lasiocampa quercus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758). [10]
M. q. sicula (Staudinger, 1861). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

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