Trigonophora flammea (Esper, 1785)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Trigonophora (Trigonophora) flammea (Esper, 1785) = Bombyx flammea Esper, 1785 = Noctua empyrea Hübner, [1803] = Trigonophora (Trigonophora) flammea. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Cyprus, Corsica, Macedonia, Channel Islands, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia,Sicily, Slovenia, Faroe Islands, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Cytisus, Prunus, Ranunculus, Fraxinus, Ligustrum. [28].

Subspecies of Trigonophora flammea

Trigonophora flammea vividior (Oberthür, 1918). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Pavel Nesmeyanov.

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

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