Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pterophoroidea → family Pterophoridae → subfamily Pterophorinae → genus Wheeleria → species Wheeleria obsoletus

Species name(s)

Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841) = Merrifieldia obsoletus Zeller, 1841 = Pterophorus obsoletus Zeller, 1841 = Pterophorus desertorium Zeller, 1867 = Alucita gonoscia Meyrick, 1922 = Alucita phlomidactylus Wasserthal, 1970 = Alucita marrubii Wasserthal, 1970. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Merrifieldia obsoletus. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Southern Urals. [3].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Sergey Novitckiy.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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Other species Wheeleria

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