Drymonia obliterata (Esper, 1785)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Notodontidae → subfamily Notodontinae → tribe Notodontini → genus Drymonia → species Drymonia obliterata
Species name(s)
Drymonia obliterata (Esper, 1785) = Bombyx obliterata Esper, 1785 = melagona (Borkhausen, 1790) = deleta Brahm, 1790. [9, 10]
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8330
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey - The European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey (European part ), France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Western Caucasus. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Quercus, Fagus, Betula. [28].
Subspecies of Drymonia obliterata
- Drymonia obliterata esmera de Freina, 1981. [9]
- D. o. obliterata. [9]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Aleksandr Andrianov, Petr Korzhov. 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
Comments
Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments
Drymonia obliterata photos
Other species Drymonia