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Poecilocampa alpina (Frey & Wullschlegel, 1874)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Lasiocampoidea → family Lasiocampidae → subfamily Poecilocampinae → tribe Poecilocampini → genus Poecilocampa → species Poecilocampa alpina

Species name(s)

Poecilocampa alpina (Frey & Wullschlegel, 1874) = canensis (Millière, 1875) = Poecilocampa canesis. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sicily, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Sicily, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Salix, Alnus, Larix. [28].

Subspecies of Poecilocampa alpina

Poecilocampa alpina pontica de Freina, 1999. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: 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
[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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