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Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Gelechioidea → family Gelechiidae → subfamily Pexicopiinae → genus Sitotroga → species Sitotroga cerealella

Species name(s)

Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789) = Sitotroga cerearella = Gelechia arctella Walker, 1864 = Tinea hordei Beckmann, 1815 = Gelechia melanarthra Lower, 1900 = Aristotelia ochrescens Meyrick, 1938. [10, 11, 187]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:4606

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

  • Sitotroga cerearella [11].

Distribution

  • Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark *, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia *, Lithuania *, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway *, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland *, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden *, Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Austria, Azores, Albania, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Iceland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus , Corsica, Crete, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta,Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, South-European taiga, the Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
  • The entire globe. [11].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Wingspan 11-16 mm. The front wings are grayish-yellow, gray hind wings. [11].

General info about Larva

  • The young caterpillar is reddish and then becomes whitish with a brown head. [11].

Larva lifespan

  • The first generation larvae develop in the autumn. It may give a few generations in the barns. [11].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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