Chesias legatella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Larentiinae → tribe Chesiadini → genus Chesias → species Chesias legatella

Species name(s)

Chesias legatella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775).

The Streak.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria ?, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland) ?, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania?, Northern Ireland, Slovakia ?, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Cytisus scoparius. [28].

Subspecies of Chesias legatella

Chesias legatella capriata Prout, 1904. [187]
C. l. scanica Burrau, 1950. [187]

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org

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