Xestia ashworthii (Doubleday, 1855)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Noctuini → subtribe Noctuina → genus Xestia → subgenus Megasema → species Xestia ashworthii

Species name(s)

Xestia (Megasema) ashworthii (Doubleday, 1855) = Agrotis ashworthii Doubleday, 1855 = Xestia (Megasema) ashworthii. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia Norway (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland,France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Medium Volzhsky, Mid-Ural,Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Subspecies of Xestia ashworthii

Xestia ashworthii artvina de Freina & Hacker, 1985. [9]
X. a. ashworthii. [9]
X. a. ashworthii (Doubleday, 1855). [10]
X. a. candelarum (Staudinger, 1871). [9]
X. a. candelarum (Staudinger, 1871). [10]
X. a. jotunensis (Schöyen, 1887). [9]
X. a. jotunensis (Schoyen, 1887). [10]
X. a. lactescens (Turati, 1919). [10]
X. a. latescens (Turati, 1919). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexandr Zhakov, Petr Korzhov.

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)