Menophra abruptaria (Thunberg, 1792)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Menophra → species Menophra abruptaria
Species name(s)
Menophra abruptaria (Thunberg, 1792) = Phalaena abruptaria Thunberg, 1792. [9, 10]
Waved Umber.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5095
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Turkey - The European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Portugal (mainland part), Romania, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovenia,Turkey (European part), France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Switzerland. [10].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Ligustrum, Syringa. [28].
Subspecies of Menophra abruptaria
- Menophra abruptaria canariensis Rebel, 1917. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photo:
Paolo Mazzei. 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
- [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
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