Thumatha senex (Hubner, 1808)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Lithosiini → subtribe Nudariina → genus Thumatha → species Thumatha senex
Species name(s)
Thumatha senex (Hubner, 1808) = Bombyx senex Hübner, [1808] = Nudaria rotunda Haworth, 1809 = karvajszkyi Dioszeghy, 1923 = tramontana Dannehl, 1929 = Comacla senex.
Round-winged Muslin.
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 1.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.
Wingspan
18—22 mm.
Flight time
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia,Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Northeast, Northwest European, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal, Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species
- Wingspan: 18-22 mm. Personal communication.
Imago lifespan
- July August Personal communication.
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Lichens (Lichenes), marchantia (Marchantia), Yungermanniya (Jungermannia), Air (Acorus) Personal communication.
Subspecies of Thumatha senex
- Ammoconia senex mediorhenana (Fuchs, 1879).
- T. s. senex (Geyer, 1828).
- T. s. syriaca Daniel, 1939.
- T. s. typhoea (Turati, 1909).
- T. s. wagneri (Boursin, 1935).
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Natalia Demchenko, Andrey Ponomarev. Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.
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
- [10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
- Vasiliy Feoktistov, personal communication
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