Phigalia pilosaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Имаго Phigalia pilosaria

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Bistonini → genus Phigalia → species Phigalia pilosaria

Species name(s)

Phigalia pilosaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Apocheima pilosaria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Geometra pilosaria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = pedaria (Fabricius, 1787). [9, 10, 85]

Pale Brindled Beauty.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Wingspan

42—46 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Apocheima pilosaria. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 42 - 46 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

March, April [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Alnus, Quercus, Fagus, Prunus, Hippophae rhamnoides, Rhamnus. [28].
Oak (Quercus), Elm (Ulmus), linden (Tilia), The turn (Prunus spinosa), Aspen (Populus tremula), maple (Acer), pear (Pyrus), Hawthorn (Crataegus), birch (Betula), Hornbeam (Carpinus ), hazel (Corylus) [PC93].

Subspecies of Phigalia pilosaria

Phigalia pilosaria meridionalis (Constantini, 1916). [10]
P. p. pilosaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]
P. p. prostae (Leraut, 1996). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Sergey Novitckiy, Andrey Ponomarev.

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
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov