Drepana falcataria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Drepanoidea → family Drepanidae → subfamily Drepaninae → genus Drepana → species Drepana falcataria

Species name(s)

Drepana falcataria (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena falcataria Linnaeus, 1758 = sicula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) = Bombyx falcula Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = obscura Stauder, 1916 = Bombyx falcula Schiffermüller, 1776 = Drepana ochracea Lambillion 1906 = Drepana crassistrigaria Strand 1911 = Drepana infernalis Hoffmann 1912 = Drepana infernalis Bytinski-Salz 1939 = Drepana obscura Stauder 1916 = Drepana curvatuloides Wagner 1919 = Drepana pallida Stephan 1924 = Drepana klemensiewiczi Kaucki 1924 = Drepana loki Skala 1929 = Drepana tenuistrigaria Lempke 1938 = Drepana scotica Bytinsky-Salz 1939 = Drepana estrigata Lucas 1959 = Drepana approximata Lempke 1960. [9, 10, 187]

Pebble Hook-tip.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky.

Primary colors

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 of Turkey - 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 , Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy North-Ural,Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

It differs fromDrepana curvatulalarge and a pair of middle spots on the wings. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, B. verrucosa, B. pubescens, B. nana, Alnus glutinosa, A. incana, Quercus robur, Salix. [28].

Subspecies of Drepana falcataria

Drepana falcataria demaculata Van Wissenlingh, 1967. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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