Pheosia gnoma (Fabricius, 1776)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Notodontidae → subfamily Notodontinae → tribe Notodontini → genus Pheosia → species Pheosia gnoma

Species name(s)

Pheosia gnoma (Fabricius, 1776) = Bombyx gnoma Fabricius, 1777 = Phalaena dictaeoides Esper, 1789 = frigida Zetterstedt, 1840 = ferdinandi Rangnow, 1934. [9, 10]

Lesser Swallow Prominent.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 7.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky*.

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

Wingspan

48—55 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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December

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania,Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva (? ), South-West-Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 48-55 mm. [PC93].
Отличается от Pheosia tremula наличием треугольного пятна белого цвета. [85].

Imago lifespan

May - August [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula. [28].
Birch (Betula), poplar (Populus) [PC93].

Subspecies of Pheosia gnoma

Pheosia gnoma frigida Zetterstedt, 1840. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Peter Khramov.

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
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov