Pyronia cecilia (Vallantin, 1894)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Maniolini → genus Pyronia → subgenus Idata → species Pyronia cecilia

Species name(s)

Pyronia (Idata) cecilia (Vallantin, 1894) = Papilio ida Esper, 1784 = Epinephele ida lapidepta Seitz, 1908 = Epinephele ida marcia Fruhstorfer, 1909 = Epinephele ida latipicta = Idata cecilia = Maniola cecilia = Maniola aphrodite Hemming, 1934 = Pyronia catalana de Sagarra 1927 = Pyronia esperi Verity 1953 = Pyronia segurai Agenjo 1952. [9, 10, 187]

Southern Gatekeeper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8716

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Turkey - The European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, the Balearic Islands, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), France (mainland part), Croatia, Switzerland ?, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Pyronia cecilia

Pyronia cecilia miegi Agenjo, 1970. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Leon Ortlieb, Vlad Proklov.

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