Egira conspicillaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Orthosiini → genus Egira → species Egira conspicillaris

Species name(s)

Egira conspicillaris (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena conspicillaris Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena Noctua conspicillaris Linnaeus, 1758 = Noctua melaleuca Vieweg, 1790 = Phalaena leuconota Donovan, 1808. [9, 10]

Silver Cloud.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7914

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia , Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands , Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia,Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lotus, Polygonum, Rumex. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Andrey Ponomarev.

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