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Craniophora pontica (Staudinger, 1878)

Имаго Craniophora pontica

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Acronictinae → tribe Acronictini → genus Craniophora → species Craniophora pontica

Species name(s)

Craniophora pontica (Staudinger, 1878) = Acronycta pontica Staudinger, 1879. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Имаго Craniophora pontica

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Moldova, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Yugoslavia . [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus. [3].

Subspecies of Craniophora pontica

Craniophora pontica navasi (Boursin, 1935). [10]
C. p. pontica (Staudinger, 1878). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Sergey Demyanenko.

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)

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