Diachrysia chryson (Esper, 1789)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Plusiinae → tribe Plusiini → subtribe Autoplusiina → genus Diachrysia → species Diachrysia chryson

Species name(s)

Diachrysia chryson (Esper, 1789) = Phalaena (Noctua) chryson Esper, 1789 = Diachrysia orichalcea. [9, 10]

Scarce Burnished Brass.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8227

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Urals , Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril,South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Eupatorium cannabinum. [28].

Subspecies of Diachrysia chryson

Diachrysia chryson chryson (Esper, 1789). [10]
D. c. deltaica (Rakosy, 1996). [10]
D. c. pales (Mell, 1939). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev.

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