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Muschampia proto (Ochsenheimer, 1808)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → tribe Pyrgini → genus Muschampia → species Muschampia proto

Species name(s)

Muschampia proto (Ochsenheimer, 1808) = Papilio proto Esper, [1830] = Syrichtus proto. [9, 10]

Large Grizzled Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Bulgaria ?, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Russia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Ukraine, France (mainland) Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Western Caucasus. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Phlomis. [28].

Subspecies of Muschampia proto

Syrichtus proto aragonensis de Sagarra, 1924. [187]
M. p. aragonensis (De Sagarra, 1924). [9]
M. p. chelalae Bustillo, 1973. [187]
M. p. fulvosatura Verity, 1925. [9]
M. p. lambesa Evans, 1949. [187]
M. p. lycaonius Wagner, 1929. [187]
M. p. lycaonius (Wagner, 1929). [9]
M. p. williamsi Querci, 1932. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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

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