Aedia leucomelas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Acontiinae → tribe Aediini → genus Aedia → species Aedia leucomelas

Species name(s)

Aedia leucomelas (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena leucomelas Linnaeus, 1758 = Catephia ramburii Boisduval, 1829 = Noctua adepta Geyer, [1832] = Anophia acronyctoides Guenée, 1852 = Anophia limitaris Walker, [1863] = Anophia thomae Prout, 1927 = Anophia albodiscalis Roepke, 1932 = Aedia diluta Roepke, 1941. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7000

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Turkey - The European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal (mainland), Romania , Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic,Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, European Central Black Earth, the Western Caucasus. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Convolvulus sepium. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexandr Zhakov, Sergey Novitckiy.

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
[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