Metachrostis velox (Hubner, 1813)

Имаго Metachrostis velox

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Metachrostis velox (Hubner, 1813) = Noctua velox Hübner, [1813] = Larentia caliginata Treitschke, 1829 = Hercyna mendaculalis Treitschke, 1829 = Noctua anomala Rambur, 1829 = Leptosia velocissima Turati, 1926 = Leptosia tarda Turati, 1926. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Malta, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Asparagus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Vlad Proklov.

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