Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Chelis → species Chelis maculosa

Species name(s)

Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780) = Phalaena maculosa Gerning, 1780 = Cletis maculosa = Phragmatobia maculosa = Chelis maculosa maculosa. [9, 10]

Spotted Tiger.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky.

Primary colors

Red, Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, France ( mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Soil, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Galium, Achillea. [28].

Subspecies of Chelis maculosa

Phragmatobia maculosa arlanzona Agenjo, 1937. [187]
C. m. arragonensis (Staudinger, 1894). [9]
C. m. aumayri Huber & Stengel, 1989. [9]
C. m. boursini Daniel, 1935. [187]
C. m. centralhispanica Daniel, 1935. [187]
C. m. honesta (Tauscher, 1806). [9]
C. m. maculosa. [9]
C. m. marsicana Dannehl, 1929. [187]
C. m. nordiberica Agenjo, 1937. [187]
C. m. serratica Agenjo, 1937. [187]
C. m. slivnoensis (Rebel, 1903). [9]
C. m. stertzi (Schulz, 1903). [9]
C. m. sultana Schwingenschuss, 1938. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Egor Kovalyov, Sergey Demyanenko.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org