Menophra nycthemeraria (Geyer, 1831)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Menophra → species Menophra nycthemeraria
Species name(s)
Menophra nycthemeraria (Geyer, 1831).
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5101
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Spain, Portugal, Sicily, France, Switzerland. [1].
- Andorra, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) ?, Portugal (mainland), Sicily, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Genista, Cytisus, Juniperus, Buxus. [28].
Subspecies of Menophra nycthemeraria
- Menophra nycthemeraria dinicola (Wehrli, 1941). [10]
- M. n. nycthemeraria (Geyer, 1831). [10]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
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
- [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
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