Calophasia opalina (Esper, 1793)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Oncocnemidinae → genus Calophasia → species Calophasia opalina

Species name(s)

Calophasia opalina (Esper, 1793) = Phalaena (Noctua) opalina Esper, 1794 = Phalaena (Noctua) casta Borkhausen, 1793 = biroi Aigner, 1901 = naruenensis Spuler, 1910. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8151

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey ( European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Southern Urals. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Linaria, Antirrhinum, Delphinium. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

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