Identification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

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02.05.2007 14:40, Vlad Proklov

Good afternoon! I have new UFOs from the library for 2004. Please help me figure out how to define up to a type.

1 - Agriphila ?tristella, Crambidae.
2-First thought -- Spilosoma urticae, Arctiidae. But then I wondered if it was the American white butterfly Hyphantria cunea. Isolated instances of it are known from the Tula and Vladimir regions (flights or drifts), so anything can happen. Personally, I don't know this species.
3 - Scopula immorata, Geometridae.

5 - This is not a butterfly, but a net-winged gemera Drepanepteryx ?phalaenoides.
6 - Calliteara pudibunda, Lymantriidae. It has emerged from the chrysalis and is spreading its wings.
7-I don't know, maybe some firefly from Pyraustinae (Crambidae).
8 - Autographa gamma, Noctuidae.

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03.05.2007 20:11, Sv Kononova

I read that Autographa mandarina is listed in the Red Book of the Moscow Region (Category 3; rare species). Two habitats are protected on the territory of the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve and a natural monument (Balashikha district).
So, to us - in the Podolsky district - it flew from the Prioksko-Terasny Nature Reserve

It's just a pity that, analyzing the photo library over the past years, I come to a completely unambiguous and deeply disappointing conclusion: the species diversity of our fauna near Moscow is not just narrowing, but tends to a banal and simply frightening zero ...
If earlier I went out into the field and could spend hours photographing more and more new insects, now I will shoot five or six species in the same two or three hours-no more

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03.05.2007 21:09, okoem

I was told in the mail that the main thing in this case is the color of the legs.
And they are just not visible
In Nymphalis polychloros, they are black, and in Nymphalis xanthomelas, they are brown.
So I'll have to settle for the fact that my butterfly is either N. polychloros or N. polychloros.xanthomelas - and this is already good

But this is really a 100% sign. However, there is another good sign - a smooth transition of dark to reddish on from the edge to the root of the hind wings. Unfortunately, the shooting angle is not quite right for determining, but as far as I can see it is Nymphalis xanthomelas.
Background color, color and size of spots, size of teeth on the wings - according to my observations, all these signs in both species are quite variable.
Svetlana, where was the photo taken? If in the Moscow region, then as far as I know, Nymphalis xanthomelas is usually found there.

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