Samia cynthia (Drury, 1773)

Самец Samia cynthia

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Saturniidae → subfamily Saturniinae → tribe Attacini → genus Samia → species Samia cynthia

Species name(s)

Samia cynthia (Drury, 1773) = Phalaena cynthia Drury, 1773 = advena (Watson, 1912) = alboabdominalis (Schüssler, 1926) = Samia viridis Mezger, 1928 = Samia bicolorata Mezger, 1928 = Samia punctata Mezger, 1928 = Samia fenestrella Mezger, 1928. [9, 10]

Cynthia Moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:2808

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*.

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

Самка Samia cynthia

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of Russia: Western Caucasus (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ailanthus altissima, A. glanduosa, Sambucus, Juglans, Prunus, Ligustrum, Forcythia, Ricinus, Laburnum, Sorbus, Syringa, Magnolia, Laurus. [28].

Subspecies of Samia cynthia

Samia cynthia borneensis Rebel, 1926. [187]
S. c. fulva Jordan, 1911. [187]
S. c. leopoldi Le Cerf, 1933. [187]
S. c. walkeri (C. & R. Felder, 1862). [9]

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org