1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Diagnose

2.1. Männchen

1-3: ♂, Mongolei, Daten siehe Etikett (det., coll. & fot.: Vasiliy Sergienko)Forum

2.2. Erstbeschreibung

1-2: Eversmann (1856: pl. I fig. 8) [nach Copyright-freiem Scan auf www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

Im Folgejahr hierzu erschienener Text

1-2: Eversmann (1857: 378-379) [nach Copyright-freien Scans auf www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Unterarten

• Catocala helena kurenzovi (Moltrecht, 1927) [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Catocala helena beicki (Mell, 1936) [Unterart nach funet.fi]

3.2. Faunistik

Knyazev et al. (2021) melden die Art als neu für Europa: "Since 2018 we have information about the first specimen of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) collected in Orenburg region (Russia, Southern Ural) 28.VII.2018 by N.D. Grebennikov (Orenburg City). After that we made several expeditions to different localities in the South Urals to confirm the presence of this species there. In 2019 and 2020 we collected a series of fresh specimens of Catocala helena in Orenburg Region. One specimen was collected west of the Volga in Samara Region. In addition, there was a new observation of C. helena from Novosibirsk region on iNaturalist.org. This species has previously been recorded in Russia from the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ismagilov, Krivosheev 2020), Irkutsk Region (Knyazev 2011), Transbaikalia (type locality – Kyakhta in Republic of Buryatiya), Amur, Khabarovsk and Primorye territories in the Russian Far East as well as in Mongolia, Korea, China (Kononenko 2010). Thus, new finds significantly expand the known distribution of the species for more than 2500 km to the west." Die Autoren gehen von einer durch Pflanzungen und Klimawandel induzierten starken Arealerweiterung nach Westen aus.

3.3. Literatur

• Erstbeschreibung: Eversmann, [E.] (1856): Les noctuélites de la Russie. — Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 29 (2): 161-233, pl. I-III.
• Eversmann, [E.] (1857): Les noctuélites de la Russie. — Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 30 (4): 355-439.
• Knyazev, S.A., Gorbunov, P.Yu, Melyakh, S.F., Nedoshivina, S.V., Grebennikov, N.D. & A.Yu. Matov (2021): The first record of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) in Europe with notes on its distribution in Russia. — Ecologica Montenegrina, 40: 68-74. [zum Artikel auf biotaxa.org] bzw. [zum PDF-Download auf researchgate.net]
• Titov, S. V., Volynkin, A. V., Pulikova, G. I. & A. G. Kaptyonkina (2022): The first record of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 from Kazakhstan (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Catocalini). — Ecologica Montenegrina 52 42-48. [PDF auf biotaxa.org]

3.4. Informationen auf anderen Websites (externe Links)

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• [Colour Atlas of the Sibirian Lepidoptera]