Helotropha leucostigma (Hubner, 1808)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Apameini → subtribe Apameina → genus Helotropha → species Helotropha leucostigma

Species name(s)

Helotropha leucostigma (Hubner, 1808) = Celaena leucostigma Hübner, 1808 = Noctua leucostigma Hübner, [1808] = Noctua fibrosa Hübner, [1803] = Noctua lunina Haworth, 1809 = Cerastis laevis Butler, 1881 = Gortyna leucostigma kurilibia Bryk, 1942 = Blepharidia yeterofuna Bryk, 1942 = Celaena leucostigma scotica Cockayne, 1955. [9, 10, 85]

The Crescent.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7284

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

31—39 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Celaena leucostigma. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France , Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Iceland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania,Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Faroe Islands, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [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 Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Prealtay, Seaside,Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 31-39 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

July August [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Carex, Sparganium, Iris, Calamagrostis, Epilobium. [28].
Sedge (Carex), sparganium (Sparganium), Iris (Iris), Cyprus (Epilobium), sword-grass (Cladium) [PC93].

Subspecies of Helotropha leucostigma

Celaena leucostigma kurilibia Bryk, 1942. [187]
H. l. laevis Butler, 1881. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Vitaly Gumenuk.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov