Moths

06.07.2008 17:26, Pavel Morozov

4th age

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06.07.2008 17:29, Pavel Morozov

Caterpillars of the 5th age are highly variable.

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06.07.2008 17:32, Pavel Morozov

A couple more photos of the 5th age, immediately after molting and before pupation.

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06.07.2008 17:34, Pavel Morozov

Cocoon formation.
The cocoon is light, cobwebby, with interwoven caterpillar hairs.
The first caterpillar pupated on June 22

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06.07.2008 17:36, Pavel Morozov

Male and female Calliteara horsfieldii
The first male appeared on July 3, the female-on July 6.

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06.07.2008 18:58, Bad Den

06.07.2008 19:10, Pavel Morozov

08.07.2008 21:44, Pavel Morozov

And a couple more photos of Calliteara horsfieldii
, a female just emerging from a cocoon.

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10.07.2008 9:39, Pavel Morozov

Finally managed to capture the most exciting episode in the development of the butterfly in Calliteara horsfieldii
male

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22.10.2008 17:13, Pavel Morozov

It is strange that the
male and female Calliteara horsfieldii have not yet posted photos of their straightened pets.
for the background, see above

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22.10.2008 19:05, Pavel Morozov

Numenes contrachens Walker, 1862
male,
Malaysia, North Borneo, leg A. Sochivko
distributed in mainland Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo

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22.11.2008 23:35, Pavel Morozov

Pida postalba Wileman, 1910
China, Hainan
Island Common in Indochina, Southern China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands

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25.11.2008 10:56, Pavel Morozov

We will continue with a brief review of the genus Lymantria Hübner [1819]
In the South of the Russian Far East, Northeastern China, Korea, and Japan, the common, even numerous
Lymantria mathura aurora Butler, 1877
has a pronounced sexual dimorphism (male above)
male - Primorsky Krai, Khasansky district, Andreevka, July
leg Morozzz
female - Primorsky Krai, Ussuriysky district, Kaimanovka, July
leg. V. G. Trufanov

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25.11.2008 11:00, Pavel Morozov

The species is distributed from the Himalayas to Japan and
is a nominate subspecies of Lymantria mathura mathura Moore, 1865.

Nepal, Pokhara, leg. Morozzz

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25.11.2008 11:06, Pavel Morozov

Just like our nun Lymantria similis similis Moore, 1879
male
c. Nepal, Pokhara, leg. Morozzz
is also widely distributed in the Himalayas, Southwest China, and Indochina Peninsula.

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25.11.2008 11:14, Pavel Morozov

Despite the fact that only two well-known pests are known to the general public, the wild goose and the nun, the genus Lymantria is quite extensive and widespread in Eurasia, even in Africa. The authors distinguish several subgenera, such as this one.

Lymantria (Spinotria) serva Fabicius, 1793
male above,
Central Nepal, Pokhara, leg. Morozzz
is a species distributed from the western Himalayas to northern Burma

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25.11.2008 11:19, Pavel Morozov

Among these waves, there are also large species.
Lymantria (Porthetria) narinda Moore, 1859
male
Malaysia, S. Borneo, Sabah.
leg Entoterra
Species distributed in the Sunda Islands

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25.11.2008 15:06, barko

Morozzz, you can use your photos to make a good determinant!
Don't slow down!

25.11.2008 15:46, Pavel Morozov

That's right! Happy to try!

05.01.2009 20:09, Pavel Morozov

And we will not break up already existing collections.
Let's continue with the limantrias.
In general, the genus is not only extensive, but also diverse.
An example of this is the following butterflies.
All five are from Vietnam.

Lymantria brotea Stoll, 1781

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05.01.2009 20:11, Pavel Morozov

Kind of like a nun, but with a "twist"

Lymantria subrosea Swinhoe, 1903

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05.01.2009 20:14, Pavel Morozov

Very small Lymantria laszloronkayi Schintlmeister, 2004

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05.01.2009 20:17, Pavel Morozov

There are also such cases.
male Lymantria hauensteini Schintlmeister, 2004
Female is quite different, as well as in other unpaired birds

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05.01.2009 20:19, Pavel Morozov

Well, such a limantria.
Lymantria (Pantria) panthera Van Eecke, 1928
male above.

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05.01.2009 20:56, barko

With your permission, I will dilute this exotic.

Gissarus relictus Kozhanchikov, 1950

06.01.2009 11:43, Pavel Morozov

And I'm back on the exotics. "The current carries me" in the Asian direction.
Lochanna strigipennis Moore, 1879
male
China, Fuyan (apologies for the province's Rugac name)
Indochina, Southeastern provinces of China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands

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06.01.2009 20:17, Zhuk

With your permission, I will dilute this exotic.

Can I use a label?

06.01.2009 20:36, barko

06.01.2009 22:10, Pavel Morozov

Your attention is such a butterfly.
Dasychira melli Collenette, 1934
male
Southeast China, Jiangxi. leg. V. Sinyaev
Belonging to the genus Dasychira, as I understand it, is doubtful (A. Schintlmeister det.). It is possible that this is a separate genus. However, we'll see, time will tell.
The funny thing is that there were difficulties in determining, and the butterfly managed to migrate from tufts (it seemed only at first glance) to volnyanki. Then it seemed to me that the specimen resembles the cocoonworm Pachypasoides (I'll post it later), and yet, not without the help of "older comrades" , it was determined as Dasychira melli Collenette, 1934

as it is, it doesn't look anything special.

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07.02.2009 11:12, Pavel Morozov

Your attention is drawn to the development cycle of the moth Dicallomera grotei, Butler, 1876 (I forgot to say, det. V. Zolotukhin)
Tsang, Shengxi. leg V. Sinyaev
h=1800m
On May 14, material was obtained - female and egg laying

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07.02.2009 11:18, Pavel Morozov

I fed him goat willow. Privozmozhnosti - eared, which is where I started. They always ate willingly. Less readily gnawed narrow-leaved willow.
At the first and second instars, they were reared in the same cage as Calliteara horsfieldii (see earlier for its development cycle). They were basically indistinguishable then. The pictures show the third age of D. grotei. On the lower one - just before molting

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07.02.2009 11:22, Pavel Morozov

4th age. It was then that it became clear that I was feeding the caterpillars of two completely different butterflies. Unlike the red C. horsfieldii, these were more gray with cool tufts of hair on the front end of the body. And they grew more slowly.
However, they ate like their neighbors mostly at night.

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07.02.2009 11:25, Pavel Morozov

The fifth age.
The name "bunnies" is firmly attached to the caterpillars because of the "ears" at the head.
in the top photo - a caterpillar just after molting next to an old skin

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07.02.2009 11:35, Pavel Morozov

sixth age.
at this age, the caterpillars were struck by a variety of colors ranging from bluish to intensely pink-red. While their neighbors C. horsfieldi had already emerged and become forum models, these continued to eat.
Next - a trip to Nepal. I had to put them under the supervision of G. D. Samodurov for a couple of weeks.

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07.02.2009 11:47, Pavel Morozov

I came back-I thought they had already pupated. But no.
Then the leapfrog began, more precisely, the "exhausting duel".
The caterpillars fed, moulted, fed again, and moulted again, without changing in size or color. This continued until October, when the willows did not fly at all. On weekends, I took caterpillars to the country, sometimes "walked" in the fresh air. I assure you, not a single one went off, I always counted all of them.
In the pictures - a caterpillar after the next molt (the 12th, probably) and "on a walk in the country" already before pupation

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07.02.2009 11:53, Pavel Morozov

The caterpillars formed a cocoon of their own filaments with interwoven hairs. Often a cocoon was formed between two or more leaves. There were 10 cocoons in total.
I put them on the shelf of the refrigerator door to spend the winter. Let me remind you that in the mountains of Central China, winter is quite so frosty and snowy, especially at an altitude of 1800 m.
This Thursday, I decided to pull out and found two vyvevshihsya, but dead and skukozhennyh volnyanok.

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07.02.2009 11:55, Pavel Morozov

The remaining 8 cocoons were moved to the cage. Sprayed it.
In the evening I came home from work and saw a male and female Dicallomera grotei Butler, 1876 in the cage

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07.02.2009 16:17, barko

The caterpillars formed a cocoon of their own filaments with interwoven hairs. Often a cocoon was formed between two or more leaves. There were 10 cocoons in total.
I put them on the shelf of the refrigerator door to spend the winter. Let me remind you that in the mountains of Central China, winter is quite so frosty and snowy, especially at an altitude of 1800 m.
This Thursday, I decided to pull out and found two vyvevshihsya, but dead and skukozhennyh volnyanok.

You are from MOROZZZ or

07.02.2009 16:29, Pavel Morozov

Are you from MOROZZZ or

Yes, I am!

25.02.2009 8:37, Pavel Morozov

And here they are after straightening.
The female was bred only one, and that one - with a defect.
Male and female Dicallomera grotei, Butler, 1876
ex. ovo
China, Shengxi

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