Agrochola lychnidis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Xylenini → subtribe Xylenina → genus Agrochola → subgenus Agrochola → species Agrochola lychnidis
Species name(s)
Agrochola (Agrochola) lychnidis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Noctua lychnidis Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Noctua pistacina Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena (Noctua) canaria Esper, 1791 = Phalaena (Noctua) rubetra Esper, 1791 = Phalaena (Noctua) schoenobaena Esper, 1791 = Phalaena (Noctua) serina Esper, 1791 = Phalaena lineola Donovan, 1801 = Noctua ferrea Haworth, 1809 = Noctua sphaerulatina Haworth, 1809 = Noctua venosa Haworth, 1809 = coerulescens Calberla, 1884 = Agrochola haematidea = Agrochola (Agrochola) lychnidis. [9, 10]
Beaded Chestnut.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
- Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland ), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands,Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia. [10].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Ranunculus, Trifolium, Salix and others. [28].
Subspecies of Agrochola lychnidis
- Agrochola lychnidis aequalis Hacker & Stengel, [1997]. [9]
- A. l. aequalis (Hacker & Stengel, 1996). [10]
- A. l. corsica Culot, 1914. [187]
- A. l. lychnidis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
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
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
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