Dyspessa ulula (Borkhausen, 1790)

Phal.[aena] Bombyx ulula Borkhausen, 1790, Naturgesch. Europ. Schmett. 3: 142.

LT: Europe. Type material is lost.

Synonymy:

= Phalaena pantherina Hübner, 1790, Beitr. Ges. Schmett. 2: 29 (as hepialina).

LT: Florence [Italy]. Type material is lost.

= Phalaena hepialica Borkhausen, 1790, Naturgesch. Europ. Schmett. 3: 469.

LT: Frankfurt [Germany]. Type material is probably lost.

= Bombyx hepialina Hübner, 1790, Beitr. Ges. Schmett. 2: 123.

LT: Florenz [Italy]. Type material is probably lost.

= Endagria marmorata Rambur, 1858, Cat. Syst. Lépid. Andalousie: 332.

LT: Grenade [Spain]. Type material (holotype) in MNHN .

Distribution. S Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia (Eversmann 1844; Erschoff & Fild 1870; Staudinger 1871a, b, 1879a; Romanoff 1885; Staudinger & Rebel 1901; Bachmetjev 1902; Rebel 1904, 1911, 1916; Spuler 1910; Zhuravlev 1910; Dannehl 1929; Buresch & Tuleschkow 1932; Povolný 1951; Daniel & Friese 1966; Didmanidze 1975, 1976 a, 1978, 1980; Gómez-Bustillo & Fernándes-Rubio 1976; Leraut 1980; Ganev 1984; Gevorkian 1986; de Freina 1996; Bertaccini et al. 1997; Anikin et al. 2000; Fazekas 2001, 2002a, b; Yakovlev 2004d, 2007a),? Syria (El-Hariri 1968).

Host plants. Different species of Allium in Europe (Hrubý 1964; Gómez-Bustillo & Fernándes-Rubio 1976; Buser et al. 2000; Piskunov et al. 2000).

Remarks. This species includes three subspecies, Dyspessa ulula ulula (Borkhausen, 1790), D. ulula kasrii Daniel, 1964 and D. ulula nigrita Wagner, 1931, of which the second one is distributed in Iran (Daniel 1964a, 1965b; Yakovlev 2011a).