Elophos vittaria (Thunberg, 1788)

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 vittaria

Species name(s)

Elophos (Yezognophos) vittaria (Thunberg, 1788) = sordaria (Thunberg, 1792) = Parietaria vittaria. [9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #5. Nenetsko-Novozemelsky tundrovy; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny*; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky*; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Norway (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth (?), Trans-Baikal, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, the Nenets-Novaya Zemlya tundra, of Baikal (?) Pribaikalskiy North Okhotsk, North -Uralsky, Tuva, Southern Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Vaccinium and other low-growing plants. [28].

Subspecies of Elophos vittaria

Elophos vittaria mendicaria (Herrich-Schaffer, 1852). [10]
E. v. vittaria (Thunberg, 1788). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

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