Setina irrorella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Lithosiini → subtribe Lithosiina → genus Setina → species Setina irrorella

Species name(s)

Setina irrorella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena irrorella Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena ocracea Scopoli, 1772 = Phalaena flavo-nigropunctata Retzius, 1783 = Bombyx signata Borkhausen, 1790 = Noctua irrorea Esper, 1787 = pallealis de Villers, 1789 = irrorata Fabricius, 1798 = Lithosia binumerica Drapiez, 1819 = Lithosia freyeri Nickerl, 1845 = Setina andereggii Herrich-Schäffer, [1847] = Philea irrorella. [9, 10]

Dew Moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #32. Chukotsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #35. Sredne-Okhotsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky.

Forewing length

14—16 mm.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of Russia: Eastern Yakutia, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, Trans-Baikal, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy North Okhotsk, North Urals , Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky,Average Okhotsk, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, Chukotka, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Europe, often in the north. Mountains - up to 1800 m. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing 1,6 cm. The color of the wings: yellow with black spots arranged in three rows. The top of the rear wings - two spots. Known form of f. signata with rows of spots, fused into a single line. [5].

General info about Imago

Dry lawn with scant vegetation, marshy grassland, heath and mountain alpine meadows - this gloomy habitat Setina irrorella. [5].

Imago lifespan

From June until the end of August in one generation. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lichen, Parmelia. [28].
Lichens. [5].

Larva lifespan

C August to June. [5].

Overwintering stage

Winters caterpillar, under rocks and lichens. [5].

Subspecies of Setina irrorella

Setina irrorella insignata Staudinger, 1881. [9]
S. i. irrorella. [9]
S. i. mediterranea Daniel, 1964. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Masha Gill, Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

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
[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