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Elophos dilucidaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Gnophini → genus Elophos → subgenus Yezognophos → species Elophos dilucidaria

Species name(s)

Elophos (Yezognophos) dilucidaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = minor Krulikowski, 1913. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5213

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #16. Sredne-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European Central Black Earth, the European Southern Taiga, Mid-Urals. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Sempervivum, Vaccinium and others. [28].

Subspecies of Elophos dilucidaria

Elophos dilucidaria carpathica (Soffner, 1932). [10]
E. d. dilucidaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]
E. d. helvetica (Nitsche, 1926). [10]
E. d. minor (Krulikovsky, 1913). [10]
E. d. silesiaca (Nitsche, 1926). [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
[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

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