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Apopestes spectrum (Esper, 1787)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Erebinae → tribe Toxocampini → genus Apopestes → species Apopestes spectrum

Species name(s)

Apopestes spectrum (Esper, 1787) = Noctua spectrum Esper, 1787 = Phalaena genistae Viller, 1789 = Phalaena socrus Giorna, 1791. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6825

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Denmark *, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part ), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Spartium, Genista. [28].

Subspecies of Apopestes spectrum

Apopestes spectrum cantralasiae Warren, 1913. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Aleksandr Andrianov.

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

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Other species Apopestes

Apopestes indica Moore, 1883

Apopestes noe L.Ronkay, 1990

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Apopestes undulata Felder, 1874

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