Scotopteryx bipunctaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
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.
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
Subspecies of Scotopteryx bipunctaria
- Scotopteryx bipunctaria bipunctaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]
- S. b. cretata (Prout, 1937). [10]
- S. b. maritima (Seebold, 1879). [10]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Vlad Proklov. 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
- [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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