Oxicesta geographica (Fabricius, 1787)

Имаго Oxicesta geographica

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Oxicesta geographica (Fabricius, 1787) = Noctua geographica Fabricius, 1787 = Phalaena Bombyx sericina Hübner, 1790 = Phalaena Bombyx austera Borkhausen, 1791. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Euphorbia. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Sergey Novitckiy, Aleksandr Dymchenko.

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