Checklist of Finnish Lepidoptera

Original publication: Kullberg, Jaakko, Anders Albrecht, Lauri Kaila & Vesa Varis 2002: Checklist of Finnish Lepidoptera – Suomen perhosten luettelo – Sahlbergia 6(2):45-190.

• Micropterigoidea – Yponomeutoidea (c. 240 KB)
• Gelechioidea (c. 320 KB)
• Zygaenoidea – Epermenioidea (c. 260 KB)
• Alucitoidea – Pyraloidea (c. 160 KB)
• Lasiocampoidea – Geometroidea (c. 250 KB)
• Noctuoidea (c. 300 KB)

Abstract of the checklist of Finnish Lepidoptera

The Lepidoptera species recorded from Finland until the end of 2001 are listed, the present total number being 2473. Changes with respect to the previous Finnish checklist are briefly annotated and the distributions for all the species in each of the 21 biogeographical provinces are presented. Accidentally imported species are not included. After the publication of our previous checklist, 98 species have been recorded as new to Finland. Of these 49 are considered as irruptive, 23 species as expansive and 26 as native Finnish species. Tinea pallescentella, earlier considered as imported is now considered as an indoor pest and added to the list. Altogether 5 pest species occurring indoors only are resident in Finland. 10 species are represented in Finland as two separate subspecies. Finally, 7 species are omitted or their identity changed due to previous misidentifications and revisions: Apterona crenulella, Elachista regificella, Clepsis rogana, C. consimilana, Anania verbascalis, Selidosema plumarium, Diarsia florida, and two species reported as Finnish in the European Distributional Checklist (Karsholt & Razowski 1996) is considered as erroneous: Xanthia ocellaris and Caloptilia azaleella. A few taxonomically unsettled pairs of taxa are listed as distinct species in order to pay attention to the problems. The monotypic genus Pygmaena Boisduval, 1840 is synonymized with Macaria Curtis, 1826 syn. nov. and Noctua punicea Hübner, 1803 is transferred to the genus Agnorisma comb. nov.

The used colour symbols in provinces

• Italics = recent update
• Grey = no records.
• Black = the species is recorded
• Light blue = the record has been removed from the province after publication of the list (Kullberg et al. 2002).
• Red = the species has been reported in the province after publication of the list (Kullberg et al. 2002).

Upkeeping & comments

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