Lithophane lamda (Fabricius, 1787)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Xylenini → subtribe Xylenina → genus Lithophane → subgenus Lithophane → species Lithophane lamda

Species name(s)

Lithophane (Lithophane) lamda (Fabricius, 1787) = Noctua lamda Fabricius, 1787 = Xylina zinckenii Treitschke, 1826 = Xylina somniculosa Hering, 1841 = Xylina rufescens Siervers, 1857 = Lithophane (Lithophane) lamda. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

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

Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, 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, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Karelia, Nizhne-Amur, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Urals , Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian. [3].
The species is distributed disjunctively in Europe. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The forewing is up to 1.8 cm long, and the coloration can vary greatly from individual to individual, often being bluish-gray or dark gray, with a silky sheen. Unlike Lithophane furcifera, there are no tufts on the abdomen. [85].

General info about Imago

Places of summer — riding bolts, water meadows. [85].

Imago lifespan

Adults of Lithophane lamda are found from late September to early June of the following year. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Шикша и восковница. [85].

Larva lifespan

From June to July. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Sergey Talanov, Vladimir Bobow.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015