Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dubatolov, V. V., Zinchenko, V. K & Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya., 2023, Autumn moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) new for the fauna of Kunashir Island, Far Eastern Entomologist 474, pp. 11-24 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.474.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC9C4FBD-AA3B-4BF8-B43B-AA60A4E3B365

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A587A1-491C-FFC3-FF5E-12EFFCB536C2

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Felipe

scientific name

Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island , Andreevskii kordon, 1.X 2022, 1 ♂ .

DISTRIBUTION. The species is widely distributed from Europe (including Azores) and NW Africa via Arabia and South Asia towards Amur River basin, Primorskii krai and Sakhalin in Russia, China, Korea, and Japan ( Pittaway, 2022); vagrant specimens were observed from Gambia (West Africa), South India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kamchatka in Russia, North America ( Pittaway, 2022). It is recorded from Kuril Islands for the first time.

REMARK. The moth was caught on Taraxacum flowers at sunny daytime.

Family Saturniidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Macroglossum

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