Calliteara pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758)

Самец (Calliteara pudibunda)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Lymantriinae → tribe Orgyiini → genus Calliteara → species Calliteara pudibunda

Species name(s)

Calliteara pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758) = Dasychira pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena pudibunda Linnaeus, 1758 = Dasychira grundi Lorkovic, 1930 = pygmaea Lének, 1957 = Dasychira pudipunda nesiotes Bryk, 1942 = Dasychira paktia Ebert, 1968 = Callitera pudipunda = Orgyia pudibunda = Elkneria pudibunda = Calliteara pudipunda = Calliteara pudipunda paktia. [9, 10, 85]

Pale Tussock.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6956

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

35—65 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Dasychira pudibunda. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland,Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Lower Volga, Seaside, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South -Zapadnosibirsky, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 35-65 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

May June [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, Salix, Betula, Prunus, Tilia, Crataegus. [28].
Birch (Betula), beech, oak (Quercus), hornbeam (Carpinus), hazel (Corylus), linden (Tilia), Hawthorn (Crataegus), willow (Salix), Plum (Prunus) [PC93].

Subspecies of Calliteara pudibunda

Calliteara pudibunda pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Peter Khramov.

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
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov