Rethera komarovi (Christoph, 1885)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Sphingidae → subfamily Macroglossinae → tribe Macroglossini → subtribe Macroglossina → genus Rethera → species Rethera komarovi

Species name(s)

Rethera komarovi (Christoph, 1885) = Rhetera komarovi Christoph, 1885 = Deilephila komarovi Christoph, 1885 = Rethera komarovi drilon Rebel & Zerny, 1931 = albocingulata O. Bang-Haas, 1935 = rjabovi O. Bang-Haas, 1935 = roseocingulata O. Bang-Haas, 1935 = Rethera komarovi komarovi. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Rhetera komarovi. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, the Soviet Union - the European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland). [10].
It flies in the foothills of Kopetdag, in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the mountains of Southern Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, north-eastern Turkey and partly in the Balkans. [327].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 60-65 mm. [327].

Imago lifespan

Конец мая — начало июля. [327].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Молочай. [327].

Subspecies of Rethera komarovi

Rethera komarovi boguta Eitschberger & Lukhtanov, 1996. [9]
R. k. komarovi (Christoph, 1885). [10]
R. k. manifica Brandt, 1938. [9]
R. k. rjabovi Bang-Haas, 1935. [187]
R. k. stipularis (Swinhoe, 1885). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Andrey Polstyanoy.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[327] Бабочки Средней Азии. М.: Планета, 1989

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