Lycophotia molothina (Esper, 1789)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Noctuini → subtribe Noctuina → genus Lycophotia → species Lycophotia molothina
Species name(s)
Lycophotia molothina (Esper, 1789) = Phalaena (Bombyx) molothina Esper, 1789. [9, 10]
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7825
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#11. Volgo-Donsky.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Corsica, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, France, Czech Republic. [1].
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain (mainland), Corsica, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, France (mainland), Czech Republic. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
Subspecies of Lycophotia molothina
- Lycophotia molothina molothina (Esper, 1789). [10]
- L. m. occidentalis (Bellier, 1860). [10]
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
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