Bena bicolorana (Fuessly, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Nolidae → subfamily Chloephorinae → tribe Chloephorini → genus Bena → species Bena bicolorana

Species name(s)

Bena bicolorana (Fuessly, 1775) = Phalaena bicolorana Fuessly, 1775 = Tortrix quercana Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Hylophilina bicolorana conspersa Warren, 1913 = Bena prasinana = Phalaena prasinana Linnaeus, 1758. [9, 10]

Scarce Silver-lines.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

* 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

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands,Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga (?), Western Caucasus, the Volga-Fair. [3].

General info about Larva

Open-living caterpillars, on the leaves of a forage plant [306].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus. [28].
Fagus, Betula, Carpinus, Corylus, Fraxinus, Quercus petraea, Quercus pubescens, Quercus robur, Acer campestre. [306].

Subspecies of Bena bicolorana

Bena prasinana conspersa Warren, 1913. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Marija Jaunkunga.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Irina Nikulina.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[306] Матов А.Ю., Кононенко В.С. Трофические связи гусениц совкообразных чешуекрылых фауны России (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea: Nolidae, Erebidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae). Владивосток: Дальнаука, 2012.