Aporophyla nigra (Haworth, 1809)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Xylenini → subtribe Antitypina → genus Aporophyla → subgenus Phylapora → species Aporophyla nigra

Species name(s)

Aporophyla (Phylapora) nigra (Haworth, 1809) = Noctua nigra Haworth, 1809 = Phalaena Noctua lunula Ström, 1768 = Noctua nigricans Hübner, [1813] = aethiops Ochsenheimer, 1816 = Aporophyla (Phylapora) nigra. [9, 10]

Black Rustic.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7969

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia ?, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Western Caucasus. [3].

Subspecies of Aporophyla nigra

Aporophyla nigra cinerea (Staudinger, 1901). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexandr Zhakov, Paolo Mazzei.

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)