Colotois pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Colotoini → genus Colotois → species Colotois pennaria

Species name(s)

Colotois pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761) = bifidaria (Haworth, 1809). [9, 10]

Feathered Thorn.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5161

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #34. Kamchatsky; #38. Sakhalin.

Wingspan

40—48 mm.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the 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: European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Sakhalin. [3].
Regions of the Russian Federation: # 1. Kaliningrad, # 3. Karelian, # 4. European North-West, # 8. Central European, # 9. European Central Black Earth, # 10. Middle-Volga, # 11. Volga-Don, # 12. Lower Volga, # 13. West Caucasian, # 14. East Caucasian # 37. Nizhne-Amur, # 38. Sakhalin, # 40. Seashore [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 40-48 mm. [PC93].

General info about Imago

Imago Crested moths, show a very striking example of sexual dimorphism (variation).
Females are much smaller than males in size and have a very distinctive shape of the wings, which is very different from the shape of the wings of males. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

September October. [PC93].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, Salix, Pyrus, Malus, Sorbus, Prunus, Acer. [28].
Birch (Betula), oak (Quercus), linden (Tilia), willow (Salix), maple (Acer), hornbeam (Carpinus), a variety of fruit trees. [PC93].

Subspecies of Colotois pennaria

Colotois pennaria carbonii Hartig, 1976. [187]
C. p. mauretanaria Stättermayer, 1930. [187]
C. p. paupera (Hausmann, 1995). [10]
C. p. pennaria (Linnaeus, 1761). [10]
C. p. ussuriensis Bang-Haas, 1927. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[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
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov