Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Plusiinae → tribe Argyrogrammatini → genus Thysanoplusia → species Thysanoplusia orichalcea

Species name(s)

Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775) = Noctua orichalcea Fabricius, 1775 = Phalaena chrysitina Martyn, 1797 = Noctua aurifera Hübner, [1813] = Diachrysia orichalcea = Thysanoplusia (Thysanoplusia) orichalcea. [9, 10]

Slender Burnished Brass.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8224

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Indo-Malayan, Australian.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Crete, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Azores Islands, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Crete, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia,Sicily, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
The tropics and subtropics of the Old World, occasionally observed in Australia (New Caledonia) [82].
Peninsular Malaysia [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Coreopsis. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[82] Moths of Borneo (mothsofborneo.com), 2011
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov