Xestia triangulum (Hufnagel, 1766)

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 triangulum

Species name(s)

Xestia (Megasema) triangulum (Hufnagel, 1766) = Xestia rhomboidea Esper, 1790 = Phalaena triangulum Hufnagel, 1766 = intermedia Tutt, 1892 = obscurior Sälzl, 1928 = Xestia (Megasema) triangulum.

Double Square-spot.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky.

Wingspan

36—46 mm.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Synonyms and combinations

Xestia rhomboidea. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia , Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Mid-Volzhsky, Average -Uralsky, Sredneobskaya, Tuva,South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 36-46 mm. Personal communication.

Imago lifespan

June August Personal communication.

Larva food plants / other food objects

Raspberry (Rubus), Nettle (Urtica), Deadnettle (Lamium), Starry (Stellaria), plantain (Plantago) Personal communication.

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Natalia Demchenko.

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
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
Vasiliy Feoktistov, personal communication