Antheraea yamamai (Guerin-Meneville, 1861)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Saturniidae → subfamily Saturniinae → tribe Saturniini → genus Antheraea → subgenus Antheraea → species Antheraea yamamai
Species name(s)
Antheraea (Antheraea) yamamai (Guerin-Meneville, 1861) = yamamai (Guénerin-Méneville, 1861). [9, 10]
Japanese Oak Silkmoth.
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 3.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.
Over-wintering stage
Ova.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Austria, Hungary, Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Lower Amur, Seaside, Mid-Amur. [3].
- Amur Region, Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krai, Japan, Korea, Northeast and North China [114].
Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species
- KRL. yellow or yellow-gray-brown, darkened along the outer edge; subbaz. line is incomplete as a reddish-pink shallow arc; middle R-Cu The ball. is a short arcuate red-pink bar; postmed.line wide blurry, mottled skirts spot inside; subterminal line is double, whitish-purple on the outside, dark inside at first. KRL. straight on the back. KRL. with smooth convex front of mottled spots. Mottled spot on the lane. KRL. oval, grayish on the outside, red inside, edged with white and black. [114].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Quercus. [28].
- Quercus mongolica [114].
Overwintering stage
Subspecies of Antheraea yamamai
- Antheraea yamamai bergmani Bryk, 1948. [187]
- A. y. superba Inoue, 1964. [187]
- A. y. ussuriensis Shakhbazov., 1953. [187]
- A. y. yoshimotoi Inoue, 1964. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Paolo Mazzei. Text data: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov, Yuri Semejkin.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.
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
- [114] Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока России, том 5. Ручейники и чешуекрылые, часть 2. Владивосток: Дальнаука, 1999
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
- [PC106] Sergei Kotov
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