Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner, 1808)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Heliothinae → genus Helicoverpa → species Helicoverpa armigera

Species name(s)

Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner, 1808) = Noctua armigera Hübner, [1805] = Noctua barbara Fabricius, 1794 = Heliothis conferta Walker, 1857 = Heliothis pulverosa Walker, 1857 = Heliothis uniformis Wallengren, 1860 = Heliothis fusca Cockerell, 1889 = Helicoverpa commoni Hardwick, 1965 = Heliothis rama Bhattacherjee & Gupta, 1972. [9, 10]

Scarce Bordered Straw.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7183

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

30—40 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, 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].
Austria, Azores, Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Spain (mainland ), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete,Latvia, Lithuania, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, the Savage Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, 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, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, the Lower Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 30-40 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

August-Sept [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Reseda (Reseda), Cotton (Gossypium), Citrus (Citrinae), Solanaceae (Solanaceae), insides of annual vegetable pepper pods (Capsicum annuum) [PC93].

Subspecies of Helicoverpa armigera

Helicoverpa armigera commoni Hardwick, 1965. [187]
H. a. conferta Walker, 1857. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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)
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov