Bembecia ichneumoniformis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Cossoidea → family Sesiidae → subfamily Sesiinae → tribe Synanthedonini → genus Bembecia → species Bembecia ichneumoniformis

Species name(s)

Bembecia ichneumoniformis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Sphinx ichneumoniformis Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Sphinx vespiformis Hübner, 1796 = Sphinx systrophaeformis Hübner, [1813] = Sphinx rhagioniformis Hübner, [1806] = Sesia palpina Dalman, 1816 = Sesia statuiformis Freyer, 1836 = Aegeria cryptiformis Walker, 1856 = Sesia albanica Rebel, 1910. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:2947

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands,Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, the Volga-Fair. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ononis, Lotus, Antyllis, Dorycnium, Hyppocrepis, Tetragonolobus, Hedysarum. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Igor Sakhno, Vlad Proklov.

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