Carcharodus floccifera (Zeller, 1847)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → genus Carcharodus → species Carcharodus floccifera

Species name(s)

Carcharodus floccifera (Zeller, 1847) = Carcharodus flocciferus (Zeller, 1847) = Hesperia floccifera Zeller, 1847 = Papilio altheae Hübner, [1800-1803] = Carcharodus imperator Hemming, 1934 = alchymillae Hemming, 1936 = gemina Lederer, 1852 = Carcharodus alchymillae Hemming 1936 = Papilio alchymillae Hübner, 1790/93 = Papilio altheae Hübner, 1803 = Erynnis australiformis Verity, 1919 = Reverdinus autumnalis Verity, 1940 = Erynnis fulvipinnulis Verity, 1924 = Hesperia gemina Lederer, 1852 = Carcharodus imperator Hemming 1934 = Erynnis oberthuri Verity, 1919 = Spilothyrus postaltheae Verity, 1934 = Carcharodus pyrenaicus Picard 1948 = Reverdinus rungsi Picard, 1948 = Spilothyrus siccior Verity, 1934. [3, 9, 10, 187]

Tufted Skipper.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky*.

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

Wingspan

24—36 mm.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Carcharodus flocciferus. [3].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal (mainland ), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland)Croatia, Czech Republic ?, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk (?), The European Central Black Earth, Central European, Krasnoyarsk, Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Imago lifespan

It provides two generations. The first generation flies from late May to late June. The second generation of flies in the second half of July until the end of August. [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Marrubium, Stachys, Ballota nigra. [28].

Subspecies of Carcharodus floccifera

Carcharodus floccifera dravira Moore, 1874. [187]
C. f. habiba (Kauffmann, 1955). [9]
C. f. orientalis Reverdin, 1913. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov