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Scotopteryx bipunctaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Имаго Scotopteryx bipunctaria

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Scotopteryx bipunctaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775).

Chalk Carpet.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5705

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Имаго Scotopteryx bipunctaria

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Trifolium. [28].

Subspecies of Scotopteryx bipunctaria

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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