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.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5433
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
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
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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