Alsophila aceraria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Alsophilinae → genus Alsophila → species Alsophila aceraria

Species name(s)

Alsophila aceraria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Geometra aceraria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena (Geometra) quadripunctaria Esper, 1801 = Phalaena (Geometra) mellearia Scharfenberg, 1805. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania , Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic,Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, Acer and other trees. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrej Makara.

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