Watsonalla cultraria (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Drepanoidea → family Drepanidae → subfamily Drepaninae → genus Watsonalla → species Watsonalla cultraria

Species name(s)

Watsonalla cultraria (Fabricius, 1775) = Drepana cultraria (Fabricius, 1775) = hamula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) = sicula (Esper, 1786) = unguicola Hübner, 1803 = minor Fuchs, 1884 = Palaeodrepana cultraria = Bombyx sicula Esper, 1786 = Drepana unguicula Hübner, 1800 = Drepana aestiva Speyer, 1872 = Drepana minor Fuchs, 1884 = Drepana latefasciata Lempke, 1960 = Drepana obscura Lempke, 1960. [9, 10, 187]

Barred Hook-tip.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia,Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Fagus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrej Makara, Diego Reggianti.

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

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