Selenia dentaria Fabricius, 1775

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Ennomini → genus Selenia → species Selenia dentaria

Species name(s)

Selenia dentaria Fabricius, 1775 = Phalaena dentaria Fabricius, 1775 = Phalaena (Geometra) bilunaria Esper, 1795 = Selenia dentaria alpestris Wehrli, 1940 = Selenia bilunaria minima Strand, 1901. [3, 9]

Early Thorn.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

34—43 mm.

Flight time

January

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December

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Nizhne-Amur, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, North Yenisei, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago lifespan

Imago flies in two generations.
The first generation flies in April and May.
The second generation fly in July and August. [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Alnus, Salix, Ribes, Rubus, Filipendula, Sorbus, Prunus, Tilia, Acer, Rhamnus, Calluna, Vaccinium, Ledum. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Natalia Demchenko.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov