Anarta melanopa (Thunberg, 1791)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Hadenini → subtribe Discestrina → genus Anarta → subgenus Calocestra → species Anarta melanopa

Species name(s)

Anarta (Calocestra) melanopa (Thunberg, 1791) = Discestra melanopa Thunberg, 1791 = Hadula melanopa (Thunberg, 1791) = Noctua melanopa Thunberg, 1791 = Noctua alpicola Quenzel, 1802 = Anarta wistroemi Lampa, 1885 = Hadula (Calocestra) melanopa. [9, 10, 85]

Broad-bordered White Underwing.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#2. Kolsky; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #18. Nizhneobsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #32. Chukotsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Discestra melanopa. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles, Germany, Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Norway (mainland), Russia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European Northeastern, Trans-Baikal, Kamchatka, Kola, Nizhne-Amur, Nizhneobsky, North Yenisei North Okhotsk, North Urals, Mid-Amur, Chukotka, South Kuril, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Empetrum, Vaccinium, Arctostaphylos. [28].

Subspecies of Anarta melanopa

Anarta melanopa brunnea (Tutt, 1892). [10]
A. m. brunnea (Tutt, 1892). [9]
A. m. koizumidakeana (Matsumura, 1927). [9]
A. m. melanopa (Thunberg, 1791). [10]
A. m. melanopa. [9]
A. m. rupestralis (Hubner, 1799). [10]
A. m. rupestralis (Hübner, [1799]). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015