Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Bagisarinae → genus Xanthodes → species Xanthodes albago

Species name(s)

Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794) = Noctua albago Fabricius, 1794 = Phalaena (Noctua) malvae Esper, 1805 = Xanthodes stramen Guenée, 1852 = Xanthia imparata Walker, [1857] = Xanthodes impellens Walker, 1858 = Xanthodes inefficiens Walker, 1858. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily, France. [1].
Albania, Balearic Islands, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Crete, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily, France (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Malva moschata, Lavatera olbia and probably related species. [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