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Bupalus vestalis Staudinger, 1897

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Bupalini → genus Bupalus → species Bupalus vestalis

Species name(s)

Bupalus vestalis Staudinger, 1897.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:21640

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

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

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Lower Amur, Seaside. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Butterfly color similar to the European type of B. piniarius.
    In the hills, with a height of 1000 m (the guerrilla zones), found in a belt of cedar, pine lowest (Pinus pumila) and the microbiota (Microbiota sp.) Is another kind of Bupalus, which approximates more to the East Siberian sight B. cembraria.Biological latter obviously associated with these plants, thickets of which were observed flying at night and butterflies. [131].

Imago lifespan

  • Butterfly occur in early June and have never been observed in more or less considerable amounts. In the mountain cedar-broadleaf forests that are typical habitats of the moth, it usually comes usually a single instance. [131].

General info about Larva

  • The caterpillar is green with white longitudinal lines. Rarely in the second half of July and in August at the Cedar. [131].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Cedar [131].

Subspecies of Bupalus vestalis

Authors

Text data: Peter Khramov, Yuri Semejkin.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

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29.01.2014 15:46, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Zoogeographical regions: No formalized data → Palaearctic. Flight time: No formalized data → June. Caterpillar lifespan: No formalized data → July, August.

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