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Saturnia caecigena (Kupido, 1825)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Saturniidae → subfamily Saturniinae → tribe Saturniini → genus Saturnia → subgenus Perisomena → species Saturnia caecigena

Species name(s)

Saturnia (Perisomena) caecigena (Kupido, 1825) = Perisomena caecigena Kupido, 1825. [10, 85]

Autumn Emperor Moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:2815

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Perisomena caecigena. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey - The European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland) ?, Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus robur, Quercus petrea, Quercus pubescens, Quercus cerris, Quercus ilex, Populus alba, Populus nigra. [28].

Subspecies of Saturnia caecigena

Saturnia caecigena caecigena (Kupido, 1825). [10]
S. c. caecigena. [9]
S. c. parviocellata Friedal, 1968. [187]
S. c. stroehlei (Nassig, 2002). [10]
S. c. transcaucasica O. Bang-Haas, 1927. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org

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