Watsonarctia deserta (Bartel, 1902)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Watsonarctia deserta (Bartel, 1902) = Phragmatobia casta = Watsonarctia casta Esper, 1785. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky*; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

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

Primary colors

Red, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

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

Larva food plants / other food objects

Galium, Asperula, Achillea. [28].

Subspecies of Watsonarctia deserta

Watsonarctia deserta centralasiae (O. Bang-Haas, 1927). [9]
W. d. deserta. [9]
W. d. karduchena (de Freina, 1983). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Sergey Titov.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015