Pelosia obtusa (Herrich-Schaffer, 1852)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Lithosiini → subtribe Lithosiina → genus Pelosia → species Pelosia obtusa

Species name(s)

Pelosia obtusa (Herrich-Schaffer, 1852) = Paidia obtusa Herrich-Schäffer, [1852]. [9, 10]

Small Dotted Footman.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6718

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden. [1].
Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic,Switzerland, Sweden. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, southern European taiga, Trans-Baikal, the Lower Amur, Prealtay, Seaside, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
The area - in particular, the European part of Russia, and in addition, many countries in Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Color brown, butterfly lighter thanPelosia mescerda. [5].

General info about Imago

Rarely. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lichens. [28].

Subspecies of Pelosia obtusa

Pelosia obtusa obtusa. [9]
P. o. sutschana (Staudinger, 1892). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Marija Jaunkunga.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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