Dyspessa ulula ( Borkhausen, 1790 )

Alipanah, Helen, Yakovlev, Roman, Falsafi, Hossein, Witt, Thomas & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2021, 5062, Zootaxa 5062 (1), pp. 1-100 : 26

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 ).