Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767)

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.13241609

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE1822-D371-FFF3-96A5-FA665948F866

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767)
status

 

10. Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767) View in CoL

( Figs 18 View Figures 4–29 , 39 View Figures 30–47 )

Material: ♀, Surskoe District, environs of the village Lava , bilberry- ledum marsh, 54.479973N, 46.901823E, 16.V.2021, leg. S.N. Kryuchkov, Ju.S. Volkova ( Fig. 48 View Figure 48 , site 2) GoogleMaps ; ♀, Ulyanovsk city, Vinnovskaya Grove , 54.2717N, 48.346E, 20.VIII.2021, leg. Ju.S. Volkova, I.S. Leontyev ( Fig. 48 View Figure 48 , site 5) GoogleMaps ; 5♂, Staraya Maina District, environs of the village Verkhnyaya Matrosovka , biologic station of UlSPU, 54.647334N, 49.053498E, 4.VI 2016, leg. Ju.S. Volkova, V. V. Zolotuhin ( Fig. 48 View Figure 48 , site 6) GoogleMaps .

Biology. Inhabits forests and open landscapes. Males are active in the evening and often may be attracted by light. Caterpillars feed on herbaceous plants, sometimes on moss and lichen.

Distribution in Russia. Widespread species, recorded from almost everywhere: from Kaliningrad Oblast to Primorskii Krai ( Sinev and Lovtsova 2019). In the Volga Region, it is known for the Ulyanovsk, Samara, Saratov, and Volgograd Oblasts, the Republics of Kalmykia, Tatarstan, and Chuvashia ( Anikin et al. 2017).

Psychidae , Epichnopteryginae

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Psychidae

Genus

Psyche

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