Achlya flavicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Drepanoidea → family Drepanidae → subfamily Thyatirinae → genus Achlya → species Achlya flavicornis

Species name(s)

Achlya flavicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena flavicornis Linnaeus, 1758 = cinerea (Hufnagel, 1767) = sulphureomaculata (Retzius, 1783) = luteicornis (Haworth, 1810) = anglica Houlbert, 1921 = Phalaena cinerea Hufnagel, 1767 = Noctua luteicornis Haworth, 1810 = Polyploca angustefasciata Heydemann, 1938 = Achlya atrescens Cockayne 1951 = Polyplaca clausa Lempke, 1938 = Polyploca confluens Heinrich, 1917 = Polyploca confluens Klemensiewicz, 1912 = Polyploca confluens Maslowscy = Polyploca covergens Feichenberger, 1962 = Polyploca haverkampfi Lambillion, 1904 = Polyploca interrupta Houlbert, 1921 = Polyploca medionigra Höfer = Polyploca melanalba Houyez, 1946 = Achlya nigromaculata Lempke 1960 = Achlya nigro-plumbosa Smith 1947 = Polyploca nudata Feichenberger, 1962 = Cymatophora obscura Spuler, 1908 = Polyploca obsoleta Maslowscy = Polyploca pseudoalbingensis Franzius, 1938 = Asphalia rosea Tutt, 1891 = Achlya signatipennis Smith 1947 = Achlya simplex Lempke 1964 = Phalaena sulphureomaculata Retzius, 1783 = Cymatophora unifasciata Spuler, 1908 = Achlya unilinea Smith 1947 = Polyploca unimaculata Maslowscy, 1930. [9, 10, 187]

Yellow Horned.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) , Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia,Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal,Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula. [28].

Subspecies of Achlya flavicornis

Achlya flavicornis finmarchica Schoyen, 1881. [187]
A. f. jezoensis Matsumura, 1927. [187]
A. f. meridionalis Wolfsberger, 1968. [187]
A. f. scotica Tutt, 1888. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Nikolai Vladimirov.

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