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Metachrostis dardouini (Boisduval, 1840)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Eublemminae → genus Metachrostis → species Metachrostis dardouini

Species name(s)

Metachrostis dardouini (Boisduval, 1840) = Bryophila dardouini Boisduval, 1840. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Crete, Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, France ( mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Anthericum ramosum. [28].

Subspecies of Metachrostis dardouini

Metachrostis dardouini dardouini (Boisduval, 1840). [10]
M. d. dilucida (Osthelder, 1933). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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

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