Pennisetia hylaeiformis (Laspeyres, 1801)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Cossoidea → family Sesiidae → subfamily Tinthiinae → tribe Pennisetiini → genus Pennisetia → species Pennisetia hylaeiformis

Species name(s)

Pennisetia hylaeiformis (Laspeyres, 1801) = Sesia hylaeiformis Laspeyrés, 1801 = Sphinx apiformis Hübner, 1796 (nec _Sphinx apiformis_ Clerck 1759) = Pennisetia anomala Dehne, 1850 = Bembecia hylaeiformis = Pennisetia anomala Dehne 1850 = Sphinx apiformis Hübner, 1796. [9, 10, 11, 187]

Raspberry Clearwing.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Bembecia hylaeiformis [11].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia , Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia,Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, Central European, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the Mid-Urals, the South Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

On top of antennae no brush. Butterfly black with narrow yellow rings on the abdomen, with a yellow collar and two oblique yellow stripes on Mesonotum. The front wings are brown with a black edge and one or two transparent windows. The wingspan of about 25 mm. [11].

General info about Imago

Moths fly at night. [11].

Imago lifespan

July and August. [11].

General info about Larva

The larva lives in the roots and stems of host plants. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Raspberries. [11].

Subspecies of Pennisetia hylaeiformis

Pennisetia hylaeiformis assimilis Arita, 1992. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Andrey Sazykin.

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)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org