Donacaula forficella (Thunberg, 1794)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pyraloidea → family Crambidae → subfamily Schoenobiinae → genus Donacaula → species Donacaula forficella

Species name(s)

Donacaula forficella (Thunberg, 1794) = Schoenobius forficellus. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:9362

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European North-West, Central European, European southern taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Seaside, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Phragmites, Carex, Glyceria. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Zoran Bozovic.

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