Calophasia platyptera (Esper, 1788)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Calophasia platyptera (Esper, 1788) = Phalaena (Noctua) platyptera Esper, 1788 = Phalaena (Noctua) canterius Villers, 1789 = Noctua tenera Hübner, [1803] = Cleophana olbiena Duponchel, 1842. [9, 10]

Antirrhinum Brocade.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8152

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles, Hungary, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Corsica, Crete, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia,Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic Islands, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Linaria, Antirrhinum. [28].

Subspecies of Calophasia platyptera

Calophasia platyptera olbiena Duponchel, 1842. [187]
C. p. subalbida Staudinger, 1901. [187]

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org