Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Utetheisa pulchella)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Callimorphina → genus Utetheisa → species Utetheisa pulchella

Species name(s)

Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena pulchella Linnaeus, 1758 = Noctua pulchra [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Lithosia amabilis Trost, 1801 = Deiopeia thyter Butler, 1877 = Utetheisa pulchella completa Weymer, 1908 = Deiopeia pulchella bicolor Oberthür, 1911 = Deiopeia pulchella arcuata Oberthür, 1911 = Utetheisa thytea Rothschild, 1914 = nigromaculata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = rubrior Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = rufomarginata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = nigrolineata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = designata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = confluens Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = delunulata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = duplolunulata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = albosignata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = separata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = ochreomaculata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = brunneomarginata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = rubrogrisea Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = albociliata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = depuncta Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = unipunctata Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = brunneocephala Stetter-Stättermayer, 1939 = Utetheisa shyama Bhattacherjee & Gupta, 1969 = Utetheisa shiba Bhattacherjee & Gupta, 1969 = Utetheisa menoni Bhattacherjee & Gupta, 1969. [9, 10]

Crimson-speckled Moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Red, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Azores, Albania, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania,Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

General info about Imago

Red-dot dippers fly both at night and during the day. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Myosotis, Echium, Borago, Anchusa. [28].

Subspecies of Utetheisa pulchella

Utetheisa pulchella dilutior Rothschild, 1910. [9]
U. p. kallima Swinhoe, 1907. [9]
U. p. pulchella. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov, Grigoriy Grigoriev.

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