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Muschampia tessellum (Hubner, 1803)

Имаго  (Muschampia tessellum)

Taxonomy

class Insecta subclass Pterygota infraclass Neoptera superorder Holometabola order Lepidoptera superfamily Papilionoidea family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae tribe Pyrgini genus Muschampia → species Muschampia tessellum

Species name(s)

Muschampia tessellum (Hubner, 1803) = Papilio tessellum Hübner, [1800-1803] = hibisci Boeber, 1812 = mazzola Ochsenheimer, 1816 = Syrichtus tessellum. [9, 10]

Tessellated Skipper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8391

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky.

* 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.

Имаго  (Muschampia tessellum)

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Albania, Greece, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga (?), Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
  • Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Phlomis samia. [28].

Subspecies of Muschampia tessellum

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Shamil Murtazin, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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