Drasteria caucasica (Kolenati, 1846)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Erebinae → tribe Melipotini → genus Drasteria → species Drasteria caucasica
Species name(s)
Drasteria caucasica (Kolenati, 1846) = Euclidia caucasica Kolenati, 1846 = Ophiusa astrida Eversmann, 1857. [9, 10]
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6789
Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 5.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.
Primary colors
Red, Brown/Gray/Black.
Flight time
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part. [1].
- Bulgaria, Russia, Romania, Ukraine. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Southern Urals. [3].
- Kazakhstan. [PC74].
Imago lifespan
Subspecies of Drasteria caucasica
- Colias caucasica balcanica (Rebel, 1901). [10]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Evgeny Komarov, Alexandr Zhakov. Text data: Peter Khramov, Evgeny Komarov, Sergei Kotov.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.
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)
- [PC74] Evgeny Komarov
- [PC106] Sergei Kotov
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