Rethera komarovi
| Rethera komarovi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sphingidae |
| Genus: | Rethera |
| Species: | R. komarovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Rethera komarovi (Bremer & Grey, 1853)[1] | |
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Rethera komarovi is a species of moth of the Sphingidae family. It is found in south-western Europe, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Iran and Iraq.
The wingspan is 55–65 mm for ssp. komarovi and 65–81 mm for ssp. manifica. Adults are on wing from mid April to mid June.
Larvae have been recorded on Rubia and Galium species.
Subspecies
- Rethera komarovi komarovi (mountains of eastern Albania, southern Yugoslavia, northern Greece, southern Bulgaria (as an isolated population), western, central, eastern and southern Turkey, Transcaucasia, Lebanon, northern Jordan, northern Iraq, Armenia, northern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan (Western Gissar Mountains), southern and eastern Kazakhstan to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan)
- Rethera komarovi boguta (Afghanistan)
- Rethera komarovi manifica (central and southern Iran)
- Rethera komarovi stipularis (Afghanistan)
References
- ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-10-26.