Epirrhoe alternata (Muller, 1764)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Larentiinae → tribe Xanthorhoini → genus Epirrhoe → species Epirrhoe alternata

Species name(s)

Epirrhoe alternata (Muller, 1764) = Epirrhoe latevittata Turati, 1913 = sociata (Borkhausen, 1794) = subtristata (Haworth, 1809) = degenerata (Haworth, 1809) = contristata (Donovan, 1811). [9, 10, 85]

Common Carpet.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky*; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky*.

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

Wingspan

22—29 mm.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Epirrhoe latevittata. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Sardinia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Iceland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands,Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia . [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur (?), Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, North Urals, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Kuril (?), South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Imago lifespan

May - September [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Galium. [28].

Subspecies of Epirrhoe alternata

Epirrhoe alternata albotaeniatula Bryk, 1942. [187]
E. a. alternata. [9]
E. a. dubiosata Alphéraky, 1883. [187]
E. a. islandica Prout, 1914. [187]
E. a. obscurata South, 1888. [187]
E. a. pseudotristata Heydemann, 1936. [187]
E. a. subgressa Bryk, 1942. [187]
E. a. xenos (Bryk, 1942). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Nikolai Vladimirov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov