Lomaspilis opis (Butler, 1878)

Имаго Lomaspilis opis

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Cassymini → genus Lomaspilis → species Lomaspilis opis

Species name(s)

Lomaspilis opis (Butler, 1878).

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, Estonia. [1].
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Subspecies of Lomaspilis opis

Lomaspilis opis bilbynica Wehrli. [9]
L. o. nigrita (Heydemann, 1936). [10]
L. o. opis. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svyatoslav Knyazev, Vitaly Gumenuk.

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)

Comments

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30.06.2023 10:05, Alexander Kuzmin

In the catalog of 2016 it is written:
Heydemann described the taxon nigrita in the erroneous status of the subspecies Lomaspilis opis nigrita Heydemann, 1936, not finding obvious structural differences from opis in the genitals and not taking into account the fact of sympatry of opis and nigrita in the Russian DV (in his publication a typical male nigrita from "Ussuri" is illustrated). The genitals of L. nigrita and L. opis are morphologically similar, but show stable differences combined with the signs of the wing pattern; in the Far east, both taxa are sympathetic, but differ in biocenotic preferences – L. opis is more numerous in low-altitude oak-deciduous forests, L. nigrita is more common in mountain mixed and spruce-cedar forests. Both species are also represented in Japan (L. opis: Inoue, 1982k: pl. 82, fig. 7, as "Lomaspilis marginata amurensis (Hedemann)", figs 8, 9, as "Lomaspilis marginata opis Butler"; Sato, 2011: figs 1-009-29, 1-009-30, 1-009-34, 1-009-35, all as "Lomaspilis marginata"; L. nigrita: Inoue, 1982k: pl. 82, fig.10, as "Lomaspilis marginata opis Butler, aberrant form" – a photograph of a butterfly meets the diagnosis ‡Lomaspilis marginata opis ab. kumakurai Inoue, 1956; Sato, 2011: figs 1-009-31, 1-009-32, 1-009-33, all as "Lomaspilis marginata"). Thus, Lomaspilis nigrita Heydemann, 1936, stat. n., bona sp. is an distinct species, distributed from Europe to Japan.