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Noctuidae associated with oak

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Sergey Rybalkin, 08.08.2023 22:07

Dear forumchane!

Tell me, please, the types of scoops whose caterpillars are monophages and eat only oak leaves.

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08.08.2023 22:43, ИНО

A difficult question: if someone observed the feeding of a caterpillar of a certain species on an oak tree, it is far from a fact that at the same time somewhere else its brethren did not feed on something else, just there was no one to observe them.

Here a book that, among other things, lists many forage plants of many scoops, though on the move. Offhand, I didn't find anyone associated exclusively with Quercus robur (even the katokals of sponsor and promise, which are clearly associated with oak in my mind, turn out to also eat bourgeois chestnut). But there are a lot of species there - if you search for a long time, maybe you will find some.

08.08.2023 23:35, Wave Storm

Or you can go to the site lepidoptera.eu, there, through the search, select the Noctuidae family, and write Quercus as a food plant. I found 52 species, but for monophages, you will have to look at each butterfly separately. I looked through a little, I came across 3 types of pure oak:

https://lepidoptera.eu/species/3605
https://lepidoptera.eu/species/1096
https://lepidoptera.eu/species/3856

But, as ENO has already said, it is not a fact that the caterpillars did not feed on something else in another place.

This post was edited by Wave Storm-08.08.2023 23: 40

09.08.2023 0:02, Sergey Rybalkin

Thank You

09.08.2023 8:50, ИНО

Just keep in mind that on the lepidoptera.eu The new fashion scoop family is considered in a neutered volume.

10.08.2023 22:07, Sergey Rybalkin

A difficult question: if someone observed the feeding of a caterpillar of a certain species on an oak tree, it is far from a fact that at the same time somewhere else its brethren did not feed on something else, just there was no one to observe them.

Here a book that, among other things, lists many forage plants of many scoops, though on the move. Offhand, I didn't find anyone associated exclusively with Quercus robur (even the katokals of sponsor and promise, which are clearly associated with oak in my mind, turn out to also eat bourgeois chestnut). But there are a lot of species there - if you search for a long time, maybe you will find some.


About sponsa in general it is interesting, I found a population in the east of the Urals. I don't know what she's eating! The nearest oak trees are hundreds of kilometers away. We have only birch, aspen, and alder trees. Willows are even shrubby, but there are no trees. So she eats some of it!

11.08.2023 14:43, ИНО

It seems that somewhere they pointed out an aspen tree, but others doubted it.

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