Aphomia sociella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Самка (Aphomia sociella)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pyraloidea → family Pyralidae → subfamily Galleriinae → tribe Tirathabini → genus Aphomia → species Aphomia sociella

Species name(s)

Aphomia sociella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena (Tinea) sociella Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena (Tinea) colonella Linnaeus, 1758 = Tinea tribunella [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 = Lithosia socia Fabricius, 1798 = Crambus colonum Fabricius, 1798 = Crambus colonatus Haworth, 1809 = asiatica Caradja, 1916 = virescens Skala, 1929 = minor Dufrane, 1930 = lanceolata Dufrane, 1930 = eritrella Della Beffa, 1941 = pedemontella Della Beffa, 1941. [9, 10]

Bee Moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:9515

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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.

Wingspan

18—44 mm.

Flight time

January

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Самка (Aphomia sociella)

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Aphomia grisea. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Corsica, Sardinia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Canary Islands , Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands,Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Northeast, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South Urals. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 18-44 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

April - August [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Wax.
The parasite in the nests of various bees, bumble bees and wasps. [PC93].

Pupa

Гусеницы проходят период развития в осиных гнездах. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov, Nikolai Vladimirov.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov