Deltote pygarga (Hufnagel, 1766)

Имаго (Deltote pygarga)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Eustrotiinae → genus Protodeltote → species Deltote pygarga

Species name(s)

Deltote (Protodeltote) pygarga (Hufnagel, 1766) = Protodeltote pygarga (Hufnagel, 1766) = Phalaena pygarga Hufnagel, 1766 = Noctua fuscula [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Phalaena (Noctua) polygramma Esper, 1790 = Phytometra albilinea Haworth, 1809 = Phytometra fusca Haworth, 1809 = Bryophila guenei Fallou, 1864 = Lithacodia fasciana coreana Bryk, 1949 = Lithacodia pygarga. [3, 9, 10]

Marbled White Spot.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Protodeltote pygarga. [3].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia,Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands,Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne Amur, Prealtay, Primorye, Sakhalin,Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Molinia caerulea and probably other herbs. [28].

Subspecies of Deltote pygarga

Lithacodia pygarga coreana Bryk, 1948. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Nikolai Vladimirov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org