Anorthoa munda (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Orthosiini → genus Anorthoa → species Anorthoa munda

Species name(s)

Anorthoa munda (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Orthosia munda Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Noctua munda Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena Noctua gemina Borkhausen, 1792 = Bombyx geminatus Haworth, 1803 = Bombyx bimaculatus Haworth, 1803 = immaculata (Staudinger, 1871) = Anorthoa immaculata. [9, 10, 85]

Twin-spotted Quaker.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Orthosia munda. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Nizhne-Amur, of Baikal, Seaside, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian , Southern Urals. [3].
Distribution: disjunctive in Europe, at an altitude of 1200 m. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - up to 1.8 cm, color - red-reddish brown, round and kidney-shaped dark spots, with yellow rims. In the middle of the line podkraevoy two black spots. [5].

General info about Imago

Places volley: mixed forests and meadows, gardens and parks. [5].

Imago lifespan

Orthosia munda flies during flowering willow, which is not indifferent - from mid-March to late April. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, Ulmus, Salix, Populus. [28].
Young alder, scrub oaks and ash trees. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars live from May to July. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Anorthoa munda

Anorthoa munda plumbeata (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015