Oxicesta chamoenices (Herrich-Schaffer, 1845)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Acronictinae → genus Oxicesta → species Oxicesta chamoenices

Species name(s)

Oxicesta chamoenices (Herrich-Schaffer, 1845) = Oxicesta nervosa Villers, 1789 = Phalaena Bombyx nervosa Villers, 1789 = Colocasia chamaesyces Guenée, 1852 = Clidia chamoenices Herrich-Schäffer, [1852]. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Oxicesta nervosa. [85].

Distribution

Italy, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Euphorbia. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Diego Reggianti.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015