Meganephria bimaculosa (Linnaeus, 1767)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Amphipyrinae → tribe Psaphidini → subtribe Psaphidina → genus Meganephria → species Meganephria bimaculosa

Species name(s)

Meganephria bimaculosa (Linnaeus, 1767) = Phalaena (Noctua) bimaculosa Linnaeus, 1767 = Phalaena (Noctua) binubeculosa Esper, 1804 = Meganephria bimaculosa pontica Draudt, 1936 = Meganephria (Meganephria) bimaculosa. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7040

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey - The European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Central Black Soil, Western Caucasus, Southern Urals (?). [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ulmus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexandr Zhakov.

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