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Selenia lunularia (Hubner, 1788)

Самец (Selenia lunularia)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Ennomini → genus Selenia → species Selenia lunularia

Species name(s)

Selenia lunularia (Hubner, 1788) = lunaria (Denis & Shiffermüller, 1775). [9, 10]

Lunar Thorn.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5174

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #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; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky.

Wingspan

32—41 mm.

Flight time

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Имаго (Selenia lunularia)

Detailed information with references

Distribution

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

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Alnus, Quercus, Rosa, Prunus, Fraxinus. [28].
  • Oak (Quercus), alder (Alnus), hazel (Corylus), willow (Salix), birch (Betula), linden (Tilia) [PC93].

Subspecies of Selenia lunularia

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Sergey Novitckiy.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

References

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04.07.2014 16:31, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Wingspan: No formalized data → 32—41 mm. Flight time: No formalized data → May, June, July, August.

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