Polyploca ridens (Fabricius, 1787)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Polyploca ridens (Fabricius, 1787) = Noctua ridens Fabricius, 1787 = flavicornis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) = putris (Rottemburg, 1776) = nitens (de Villers, 1789) = Phalaena xanhoceros Borkhausen, 1792 = Phalaena (Noctua) chrysoceras Beckwith, 1794 = boulberti Lucas in litt. = singularis Houlbert, 1921 = neoridens Parenzan, 1976 = Noctua chrysoceras Beckwith, 1794 = Noctua putris Rottemburg, 1776 = Polyploca bilinea Lempke 1960 = Polyploca concinna Warren 1912 = Polyploca erythrocephala Esper 1786 = Polyploca interrupta Tutt 1888 = Polyploca interrupta-alba Tutt 1891 = Polyploca interrupta-ochrea Tutt 1891 = Polyploca nigricans Spuler 1908 = Polyploca unicolor Cockayne 1951 = Polyploca variegata Spuler 1908. [9, 10, 187]

Frosted-green Lutestring.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania,Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus. [28].

Subspecies of Polyploca ridens

Polyploca ridens meridionalis Parenzan, 1976. [187]
P. r. ridens (Fabricius, 1787). [10]
P. r. transmarina (Rungs, 1972). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: 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
[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