Adscita geryon (Hubner, 1813)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Zygaenoidea → family Zygaenidae → subfamily Procridinae → tribe Procridini → genus Adscita → subgenus Adscita → species Adscita geryon

Species name(s)

Adscita (Adscita) geryon (Hubner, 1813).

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #11. Volgo-Donsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Portugal (mainland part)?, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Central Black Earth. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Helianthemum, captive caterpillars feed Geranium. [28].

Subspecies of Adscita geryon

Adscita geryon acutafibra (Verity, 1946). [10]
A. g. chrysocephala (Nickerl, 1845). [10]
A. g. geryon (Hubner, 1813). [10]
A. g. orientalis (Alberti, 1938). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Aleksandr Andrianov.

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
[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

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