Setina aurita (Esper, 1787)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Setina aurita (Esper, 1787) = Noctua aurita Esper, 1787 = Tinea irrorella Sulzer, 1776 = Bombyx ramosa Fabricius, 1793 = Bombyx compluta Hübner, 1803 = Bombyx imbuta Hübner, ? = catherinei Oberthur, 1908 = fumosa Seitz, 1910 = fuliginosa Blachier, 1910 = marginata Rocci, 1914 = seminigra Rocki, 1914 = semipunctata Rocci, 1914 = complutoides Strand, 1920 = transversa Vorbrodt, 1921 = obliterata Dannehl, 1929 = atrophila Schawerda, 1941 = artericaeformis Thomann, 1951 = Endrosa aurita. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland. [1].
Austria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Romania, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lichens. [28].

Subspecies of Setina aurita

Endrosa aurita modesta Thomann, 1951. [187]
S. a. tecticola Thomann, 1951. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Andrey Polstyanoy.

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