Thaumetopoea herculeana (Rambur, 1840)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Notodontidae → subfamily Thaumetopoeinae → genus Thaumetopoea → species Thaumetopoea herculeana

Species name(s)

Thaumetopoea herculeana (Rambur, 1840) = Bombyx herculeana Rambur, 1840 = bifasciata Spuler, 1908 = colossa Bang-Haas, 1910 = phosphatophila Dumont, 1922 = carneades Turati, 1924 = lustrata Turati, 1924 = extrema Seitz, 1932 = alvarezi Agenjo, 1941 = zernyi Agenjo, 1941 = ibarrae Agenjo, 1941 = abdallah Rungs, 1956. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Spain, Portugal. [1].
Spain (mainland), Canary Islands ?, Portugal (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Cistus, Erodium, Helianthemum. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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
[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