Ematurga atomaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Ematurga atomaria)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Boarmiini → genus Ematurga → species Ematurga atomaria

Species name(s)

Ematurga atomaria (Linnaeus, 1758).

Common Heath.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

11—15 mm.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia,Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, East Yakutia, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, West Yakut, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelia, Kola,Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei North Okhotsk, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Areal Ematurga atomaria - from Europe to Asia. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - from 1.1 to 1.5 cm. Males ocher-yellow with brown horizontal stripes and silrno mustache comb. Females are dull whitish, with darker, coming down to pochtichernyh horizontal stripes and a thin mustache. Fringe wings with dark and light spots. [5].

General info about Imago

Herbal Moth flies on sunny slopes and woods, country roads, forest edges and other dry, warm areas of the terrain. In the daytime. [5].

Imago lifespan

From April to September in two generations. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Carex, Centaurea, Solidago, Calluna, Vaccinium, Trifolium, Artemisia, Hypericum, Ledum, Chrysanthemum, Arctium, Salix, Betula, Sorbus, Prunus. [28].
Heather and wormwood. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillar meets in August and September, and in May and June. [5].

Subspecies of Ematurga atomaria

Ematurga atomaria alpicolaria (Vorbrodt & Muller-Rutz, 1917). [10]
E. a. alpicoloraria Vorbrodt, 1917. [187]
E. a. arenaria (Candeze, 1926). [10]
E. a. arenosa Candèze, 1926. [187]
E. a. atomaria (Linnaeus, 1758). [10]
E. a. krassnojarscensis Fuchs, 1899. [9]
E. a. meinhardi Krulikovsky, 1909. [9]
E. a. minuta (Heydemann, 1925). [10]
E. a. ngana Wehrli, 1953. [187]
E. a. orientaria (Staudinger, 1861). [10]
E. a. zetterstedtaria Heydemann, 1930. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Fyodor Pudovikov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org