Euchalcia variabilis (Piller, 1783)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Plusiinae → tribe Plusiini → subtribe Euchalciina → genus Euchalcia → species Euchalcia variabilis

Species name(s)

Euchalcia variabilis (Piller, 1783) = Noctua variabilis Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 = Noctua illustris Fabricius, 1787 = Euchalcia (Euchalcia) variabilis. [9, 10]

Purple-shaded Gem.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #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; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur (?) Prealtay, of Baikal, North Okhotsk, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Aconitum, Thalictrum. [28].

Subspecies of Euchalcia variabilis

Euchalcia variabilis fuscolivacea (Varga & L. Ronkay, 1984). [10]
E. v. mongolica (Staudinger, 1901). [9]
E. v. uralensis (Eversmann, 1842). [10]
E. v. variabilis (Piller, 1783). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei, Alexandr Zhakov.

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