Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809)

Marabuto, Eduardo, 2022, Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25, pp. 305-322 : 311

15. Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809)

— Serra da Nogueira, BraganÇa. 1150 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29TPG7724. 9.VI.2015. Eduardo Marabuto leg. At light-trap. ( Fig. 3c ) .

Eurosiberian species associated with temperate deciduous woodland with little water deficit ( Zilli et al., 2005). In Iberia, it is only known from a northern temperate belt spanning from Cataluña (Sarto i Monteys, 1984), through Álava and Guiṗzcoa ( Cifuentes & Alcobendas, 2004), Palencia ( Jubete, 2015), León ( Manceñido-González & González-Estébanez, 2014) to Zamora and Galicia ( Jambrina et al., 2003; Fernández Vidal, 2018) and as an isolated record in the south of the Peninsula in Sierra de Segura ( Lencina Gutiérrez & Albert Rico, 2017). Overall a scarce species with few records, the current Portuguese record is geographically nearest to the only record in the Spanish province of Zamora (Vilariño de Sanabria: Jambrina et al., 2003) and about 100 km south of the only Galician one in Lugo (O Courel: Fernández Vidal, 2018).

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Fig. 3.- Habitus of new Portuguese species. a.- Xanthorhoe designata. b.- Triphosa tauteli. c.- Apamea epomidion. d.- Xestia sexstrigata. All photos: Eduardo Marabuto.