Hyphoraia testudinaria (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Hyphoraia → species Hyphoraia testudinaria

Species name(s)

Hyphoraia testudinaria (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785) = Phalaena testudinaria Geoffroy, 1785 = Bombyx maculania Lang, 1789 = Phalaena curialis Esper, 1789 = Bombyx civica Hübner, 1790 = Arctia maculata Caradja, 1893 = meridialpina Daniel, 1939 = Phalaena aulica. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Spain, Italy, Sicily, France, Switzerland. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Sicily, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Plantago, Achillea, Euphorbia cyparissias, Potentilla, Hieracium, Taraxacum, Cynoglossum, Plantago, Deschampsia, Calamagrostis. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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