Holcocerus gloriosa (Erschoff, 1874)
| FAMILY | Cossidae |
| SUBFAMILY | Cossinae |
| GENUS | Holcocerus |
| SPECIES | gloriosa |
| AUTHOR | (Erschoff, 1874) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Hypopta gloriosa |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [Turkmenistan], Kizil-Kum desert, Karak Mt. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Lectotype, ZMMU. |
| STATUS | Species |
| PUBLICATION | Erschoff N. G. 1874. Lepidoptera. - In: A. P. Fedschenko. Puteschestvije v' Turkestan'. 2. Zoogeografischeskija Izsledovanija 4 (3). - — 11(2)(5):i-vi, 1-128, pls 1-6. |
| PAGINATION | 35; pl. 2, fig. 21 |
Synonyms
| NAME | AUTHOR | STATUS |
| laudabilis | Staudinger, 1899 | Synonym of species |
| mesopotamicus | Watkins & Buxton, 1921 | Synonym of species |
| puengeleri | Rothschild, 1912 | Synonym of species |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Bahrain | Wiltshire E. P. 1964. The Lepidoptera of Bahrain. - Journal of the Bombay natural History Society 61(1):119-141, pls 1-3. | 141 | |
| Oman | Yakovlev R. V. 2011. Catalogue of the family Cossidae of the Old World (Lepidoptera). - Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 66:1-129. | 25 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Wiltshire E. P. 1980a. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae. - In: Wittmer & Büttiker (eds.), Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2:179-240. | 186 | |
| United Arab Emirates | Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5-8. | 5 | |
| Yemen | Hacker H. H., Schreier H.-P. & Bischof A. 1999. Lepidoptera of Yemen Arab Republic, collected by A. Bischof, H. Hacker and H.-P. Schreier in autumn 1996 and B. Müller in summer 1987. - Esperiana 7:267-282, pls. 7-9. | 268 (as laudabilis) |
Notes: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Egypt (Sinai), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Host Plants
Unknown
* Presumed to feed in the roots of Taverniera sp. (see E. P. Wiltshire 1964: 141).
