Pseudoterpna pruinata (Hufnagel, 1767)

Имаго (Pseudoterpna pruinata)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Geometrinae → tribe Pseudoterpnini → genus Pseudoterpna → species Pseudoterpna pruinata

Species name(s)

Pseudoterpna pruinata (Hufnagel, 1767) = Phalaena pruinata Hufnagel, 1767 = Geometra cythisaria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena pruinaria Rottemburg, 1777 = Phalaena (Geometra) genistaria Villers, 1789 = Hemithea agrestaria Duponchel, 1829 = Hemithea porracearia Boisduval, 1840 = Phalaena (Geometra) viridisparsata Roquette, 1857 = Aspilates atropunctaria Walker, [1863]. [9, 10]

Grass Emerald.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

Forewing length

15—18 mm.

Primary colors

White.

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, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) Crete, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland,Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South Ural. [3].
Central, Western and Southern Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length: 1.5-1.8 cm. The color from gray-green to pale blue-zelenogo.Vnutrennyaya and outer cross bands of dark green. Wavy stripes white, and continues on the rear fenders. [5].

General info about Imago

It flies about gorse plants. [5].

Imago lifespan

From June to August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ulex, Cytisus, Genista. [28].
Gorse. [5].

Larva lifespan

August-May. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Pseudoterpna pruinata

Pseudoterpna pruinata atropunctaria Walker, 1863. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, 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