Parectropis similaria Hufnagel, 1767

Имаго (Parectropis similaria)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Parectropis → species Parectropis similaria

Species name(s)

Parectropis similaria Hufnagel, 1767 = extersaria Hübner, 1799 = luridata Borkhausen, 1794. [3, 9]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian,South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Quercus, Alnus, Acer, and other shrubs and trees. [28].

Subspecies of Parectropis similaria

Parectropis similaria grisescens (Djakonov, 1926). [9]
P. s. obscurior (Staudinger, 1897). [9]
P. s. similaria. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Natalia Demchenko, Alex Lender.

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