Sterrhopterix fusca (Haworth, 1809)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Sterrhopteryx hirsutella. [85].

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia . [1].
• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Earth, Norway (mainland), Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Nenets-Novaya Zemlya tundra, Nizhne-Amur, of Baikal , Pribaikalskiy, Seaside,Sakhalin, the North Okhotsk, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
• The whole of Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Fore wing length of males up to 1 cm in females is reduced wings at all. [5].

General info about Imago

• It is found in wet habitats - in the marshes, meadows and a filling of moist mixed forests. Females hairy hatch bagworm moth in a cocoon and remain there for life. Males are more active. In the twilight. [5].

Imago lifespan

• From June to early July. [5].

General info about Larva

• Immediately after hatching the larvae build Bag / Case consists, and caterpillars male Case consists longer than that of women. The Baggies caterpillars live 2 years, but not passive, and simply dragging them everywhere (bags) with you in them, and they pupate.The habits of pupation again there are differences between male and female individuals - female prefers a height of about 2 meters above the ground (they are fixed and inviting male pheromones better emit above to increase the useful coverage), and the male tends to lower, closer to the ground - safer heremobility and they do not hold. Whatever it was, Case consists constructed from pieces of wood and leaves. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Birch, alder, preferably - young. [5].

Larva lifespan

• Track Sterrhopteryx fusca occur from August to May of the following year. [5].

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Erebidae

Bombus sylvestris Lepeletier, 1832

Apidae

Vespa tropica Linnaeus, 1758

Vespidae

Polistes bischoffi Weyrauch, 1937

Vespidae

Xylocopa violacea Linnaeus, 1758

Apidae