Eriocrania sparrmannella (Bosc, 1791)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Eriocranioidea → family Eriocraniidae → genus Eriocrania → species Eriocrania sparrmannella

Species name(s)

Eriocrania sparrmannella (Bosc, 1791) = Phalaena (Tinea) sparrmannella Bosc, 1791 = Eriocephala sparmanella. [9, 10, 11]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky.

Forewing length

5—6 mm.

Wingspan

9—11 mm.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Pupa.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Eriocephala sparmanella [11].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: European North-West, Central European, European southern taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelia, Kola, of Baikal, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The front wings of 5-6 mm, with a contrasting golden mesh pattern of purple spots. The hind wings are dark gray. Head in the shaggy hairs. Antennae less than half the length of the front wings. [86].
The wingspan of 9 to 11 mm. front wings gold with crimson stripes, rear - gray, with reddish gray top and fringe. [11].

General info about Imago

Moths fly in the morning. [86].

Imago lifespan

May June. [86].

General info about Larva

Damaged leaves turn brown caterpillar. The very caterpillar - legless. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula [86].
Birch. [11].

Overwintering stage

Chrysalis [86].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Sergey Talanov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Shamil Murtazin.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[86] Горбунов П. Ю., Ольшванг В. Н. Бабочки Южного Урала. Справочник-определитель. Екатеринбург: Сократ, 2008