Cossus cossus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Poltavsky, Alexander N.
name: Ilyina, Elena V.
name: Shchurov, Valeriy I.
name: Witt, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Cossus
Cossus cossus

description: Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phalaena-Bombyx cossus Linnaeus, 1758: 504.
Type locality: Sweden
Type material (syntypes) in LSL.
Distribution: Europe (including Scandinavia, England and S. Ireland), Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Siberia, East Russia, Mongolia, C. Asia, Korea, N. and Central China, Japan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (Yakovlev 2011).
Material examined: 1 male, Daghestan, Avarskij Koisu, 30.07.926, Rjabov leg. (ZISP); 2 males, Makhachkala, 12.06.50, Rjabov leg. (ZISP); 1 male, Caucasus (ZISP); 1 female, Krasnaya Polyana, 3.07.909 (ZISP); 1 male, N. Caucasus, Mineral’nye Vody, 6.953, Pokorzhewsky leg. (ZISP); 1 male, Caucasus, Mashuk Mt., 4.08.47 (ZISP); 1 male, Kuban (MWM); 1 male, Sochi (MWM); 2 males, near Majkop (ZMMU); 1 male, Pyatigorsk (MWM); 1 male, Daghestan, Dylym, 13.08.2014 (APR); 1 male, Daghestan, Gazardkam-Kazmalyar, 19.07.2014 (APR); 1 male, Daghestan, Gunib, 22.04.2001 (APR); Bessergenevskaja, 1 male, 3.06.2009, 2 males, 6.06.2010 (APC); Bolshekrepinskaja, 1 male, 28.05.2005, 1 male, 9.06.2005 (APC); Volochaevsky, 1 male, 26.07.2011, 1 male, 31.05.2013 (APC); Gigant, 1 male, 7.06.2007, 3 males, 17.07.2007, 1 male, 26.07.2011, 1 male, 1.08.2011, 1 male, 21.05.2013; 1 male, 29.05.2014; 2 male, 17– 24.06.2014 (APC); Kalinin, 2 males, 4–9.06.2007, 2 male, 16.06.2011, 1 male, 20.06.2012; 9 males, 19.05.2013 (APC); 2 male, Kamensk, 27.06.2009 (APC); 1 male, Konygin, 2.06.2007 (APC); Kruzhilinsky, 1 male, 30.06.2003, 1 male, 6.07.2004 (APC); 1 male, Kuibyshevo, 12.06.2012 (APC); 2 male, Masalovka, 26.07.2009 (APC); 1 male, Nizhnematveevsky, 30.06.2004 (APC); Razdorskaja, 1 male, 12.06.2003, 1 male, 3.07.2008 (APC); 1 male, Rogozhkino, 20.06.2008 (APC); Ternovoy, 1 male, 26.06.2003 (APC); 2 ex., 15.06.2012 (APC); Krasnodar Reg.: Khanskaja, 1 male, 17.05.2014, 1 ex., 18.06.2014 (APC); 1 female, Loo, 6.07.1991, 1 female, 3.08.1997, 1 female, 12.07.1999 (VSC); 1 female, Sober- Oaschkh, 7.06.1998, 2 males, 29.06.2006, 1 male, 1 female, 25.07.2008 (VSC); 2 male, Papay, 18.06.1998 (VSC); 1 male, Azish-Tau, 15.07.1998 (VSC); 2 male, Janina Gorge, 28.06.2000 (VSC); 2 males, Shize, 22.06.2004, 1 male, 11.08.2004, Aibga 3, 8.06.2000 (VSC); 3 males, Abin, 31.07.2008 (VSC); 1 male, Voronezhskaja, 30.08.2003, 2 males, 31.05.2006; 1 female, 6.06.2008 (VSC); 1 male, Gerpegem, 0 3.06.2009 (VSC); the mature larvae in trunk of Populus alba L., Zybza, 25.06.2009 (VSC); 2 males, Suzdal’skaja, 26.06.2009 (VSC); 2 females, Markotkh, 19.09.2009 (VSC); 1 male, Eya river, 13.06.2010 (VSC); 1 male, Small Utrisch, 18.06.2010 (N. Okhrimenko) (VSC); 1 male, Inal, 22.05.2012 (VSC); 1 female, Il’skaja, 19.05.2014 (VSC); 1 female, 11.07.2014 (E. Zhukov) (VSC); 1 female, Lysaja 3, 0 7.07.2014 (VSC).
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., Poltavsky, Alexander N., Ilyina, Elena V., Shchurov, Valeriy I. & Witt, Thomas J., 2015, Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of the Russian Caucasus with the description of a new species, pp. 270-288 in Zootaxa 4044 (2) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/232713