Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Glottulini → genus Brithys → species Brithys crini

Species name(s)

Brithys crini (Fabricius, 1775) = Bombyx crini Fabricius, 1775 = Phalaena dominica Cramer, 1782 = Noctua pancratii Cyrillo, 1787 = Noctua encausta Hübner, [1808] = Brithys vertenteni Hulstaert, 1924 = Brithys nipponica Matsumura, 1931 = Brithys encausta = Brithys pancratii. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, France. [1].
Albania, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Malta, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, France (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Pancratium maritimum. [28].

Subspecies of Brithys crini

Brithys crini pancratii Cyrillo, 1787. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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