Psyche betulina (Zeller, 1839)

Volkova, Julia S., Prozorov, Alexey M., Kryuchkov, Sergey N., Pavlov, Pavel O., Yakovlev, Roman V. & Anikin, Vasilii V., 2022, Fauna of Psychidae (Lepidoptera) of the Ulyanovsk Oblast (Middle Volga, Russia), Ecologica Montenegrina 58, pp. 109-121 : 115

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.58.10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13241607

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE1822-D371-FFF3-96A5-FCC159D7FA8B

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Felipe

scientific name

Psyche betulina (Zeller, 1839)
status

 

9. Psyche betulina (Zeller, 1839) View in CoL

( Figs 17 View Figures 4–29 , 38 View Figures 30–47 )

Material: 2♂, Surskoe District , Bolshoi Kuvai, 54.620761N, 47.096874E, 30.V–3.VI.1996, leg. V. V. Zolotuhin ( Fig. 48 View Figure 48 , site 3) GoogleMaps ; 4♂, Radishchevo District , village Srednikovo, 52.958303N, 48.089018E, 23.V.1996, leg. V. V. Zolotuhin ( Fig. 48 View Figure 48 , site 15) GoogleMaps .

Biology. Inhabits forests, steppes, and marshes. Caterpillars often live on tree trunks of birches, willows, and pines; sometimes they aggregate together in numbers. Polyphagous. Adults occur from May to June, mainly in the evening.

Distribution in Russia. Widespread species. It is recorded from the territory of the Karelian, European Northwest, South Taiga, Central, Middle Volga, Volga-Don, East Caucasian, South Ural, Southwest Siberian, Tuva, Baikal, Middle and Lower Amur Regions, and Primorskii Krai ( Sinev and Lovtsova 2019). In the Volga Region, it is known in the Ulyanovsk, Samara, Saratov, and Volgograd Oblasts and the Republic of Tatarstan ( Anikin et al. 2017).

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Psychidae

Genus

Psyche

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