Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767)

Имаго (Tethea ocularis)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767) = Phalaena ocularis Linnaeus, 1767 = Phalaena octogesimea Hübner, 1786 = octogena (Esper, 1788) = ocularis osthelder (Bytinski-Salz, 1937) = octogesima auct. = Tethea basifusca Lempke 1960 = Tethea brunnea Lempke 1960 = Palimpsestis clausa Lempke, 1938 = Palimpsestis confluens Lempke, 1938 = Tethea cotangens Lempke 1960 = Palimpsestis discolor Lempke, 1938 = Palimpsestis fasciata Lingonblad, 1950 = Tethea fusca Cockayne 1944 = Cymatophora interrupta Spuler, 1908 = Tethea mediofusca Cockayne 1952 = Tethea microphthalma Cockayne 1951 = Cymatophora rosea Tutt, 1891 = Cymatophora sareptensis Spuler, 1908 = Tethea separata Lempke 1960 = Tethea variegata Lempke 1960. [9, 10, 187]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #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; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

35—44 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, 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, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, 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, East Caucasus, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

It has a more vivid picture than similar herTethea or, white rims of the ring and reniform spots, white horizontal stripes and white fringe of the rear wings. [5].
Wingspan: 35-44 mm. [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Populus. [28].
Aspen (Populus tremula) and octalnye representatives of Poplar (Populus) [PC93].

Subspecies of Tethea ocularis

Tethea ocularis amurensis Warren, 1912. [187]
T. o. caucasica Krulikovski, 1901. [187]
T. o. kosswigi (Werny, 1966). [9]
T. o. octogesimea Hübner, 1786. [187]
T. o. orientalis (Werny, 1966). [9]
T. o. tanakai Inoue, 1982. [187]
T. o. tsinlingensis Werny, 1966. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svyatoslav Knyazev, Vitaly Gumenuk.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov