Pennithera firmata (Hubner, 1822)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Larentiinae → tribe Cidariini → genus Pennithera → species Pennithera firmata

Species name(s)

Pennithera firmata (Hubner, 1822) = Protothera firmata (Hubner, [1822]) = Thera firmata (Hübner, [1822]) = Geometra firmata Hübner, [1822] = Thera consobrinata Curtis, 1834 = Thera simulata Stephens, 1831 = Chesias ulicata Rambur, 1834 = Larentia firmata = Cidaria firmata = Asaphodes (Pennithera) firmata = Heterothera firmata. [3, 9, 10]

Pine Carpet.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Protothera firmata. [3].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,Finland, France (mainland), Croatia ?, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Pinus silvestris. [28].

Subspecies of Pennithera firmata

Pennithera firmata consobrinata (Curtis, 1834). [10]
P. f. firmata (Hubner, 1822). [10]
P. f. tavoilloti (Mazel, 1998). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexandr Zhakov, Paolo Mazzei.

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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Pennithera lugubris Inoue, 1986

Pennithera manifesta Inoue, 1986

Pennithera subalpina Inoue, 1986

Pennithera subcomis (Inoue, 1978)

Pennithera ulicata (Rambur, 1934)

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