Dryobotodes tenebrosa (Esper, 1789)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Dryobotodes (Dichonioxa) tenebrosa (Esper, 1789) = Phalaena (Noctua) tenebrosa Esper, 1789 = Noctua saportae Duponchel, 1826 = Hadena ilicis Freyer, 1839 = Dryobotodes (Dichonioxa) tenebrosa. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus. [28].

Subspecies of Dryobotodes tenebrosa

Dryobotodes tenebrosa major (Rothschild, 1914). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: 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
[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