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Valeria oleagina (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Valeria oleagina (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Bombyx oleagina Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Valeria oleagina syriaca Osthelder, 1933. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7042

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - The European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part) Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Prunus, Crataegus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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

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