Moths

15.03.2009 2:29, barko

The Iranian wave (sort of) needs to be defined.

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15.03.2009 11:08, Pavel Morozov

It can be said that it is similar to Ocneria sp.
We will now wait for the book about stinks

27.06.2009 14:33, Динусик

June 23, 2009 Amur region roc Blagoveshchensk, Shirotnaya station.

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27.06.2009 14:48, Grigory Grigoryev

27.06.2009 16:50, Yakovlev

27.06.2009 18:43, Динусик

Dina, hi, really great photos.
Greetings to you from Elena Guskova, who vows to write an article with you on Amur leaf beetles.
In a couple of days, Prem will return to Mongolia. Good luck on the DV.
Greetings to all-Streltsov, Malikova, Osipov.
Novel

Thank you Greetings will definitely pass!

06.07.2009 19:46, Pavel Morozov

Your attention is drawn to the development cycle of the Himalayan Nygmia plana Walker, 1856
The species is distributed in the Himalayas, almost all over India and further east to South China. The species of this and other related genera (our closest relatives are Euroctis) are very similar to each other and there is still no normal work on them.
The material was obtained from V. Sinyaev.
On May 9, the first caterpillars appeared, the first butterfly hatched on July 5
, eared willow and goat willow were used as food.
in the photo - only hatched caterpillars and the first molt

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06.07.2009 19:49, Pavel Morozov

2-3-th age
The caterpillars are grouped, kept along the stem of the forage plant. Food mainly in the dark

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06.07.2009 19:51, Pavel Morozov

At the 4th age, they try to stay alone.

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06.07.2009 19:54, Pavel Morozov

at the 5th age, the largest caterpillars reach 3.5-4 cm. Small hairs cause skin itching (I scratched myself from them - ogogo!).

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06.07.2009 19:59, Pavel Morozov

The first cocoon appeared on June 16, a little more than a month after the appearance of the caterpillars.
a thin reddish-brown cocoon usually formed inside one or more coiled leaves. The cocoon is densely interwoven with caterpillar hairs.
The pupa is dark brown

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06.07.2009 20:01, Pavel Morozov

The first butterfly (female) hatched on July 5, around 7 pm, almost 2 months after the caterpillars appeared.

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06.07.2009 20:03, Pavel Morozov

Approximately 2 hours after the female, the first male hatched.
So, Nygmia plana Walker, 1856

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06.07.2009 20:20, Pavel Morozov

That's what I like them for, so it's for the mass character!

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06.07.2009 20:24, Zhuk

What animals they are! Beautiful things!

31.07.2009 10:37, Pavel Morozov

We do not like to stand still and continue to display various lepidoptera as far as possible and as the material becomes available.

This time I bring to your attention the development cycle of Lymantria mathura Moore, 1865
The species is widely distributed in South, South-east and East Asia, including the Amur Region and Primorye, where the subspecies aurora Butler lives, 1877
Butterflies from South and South-east Asia belong to the nominative subspecies (I have already placed photos of both subspecies above)..
Actually, the nomnatives were derived.
Material-Laos, November ' 08, leg. V. Sinyaev.

The eggs overwintered. The caterpillars appeared at the very beginning of June.
Initially, they were fed with oak, which they very willingly ate. Later transferred to willow (ate any, but with great pleasure narrow-leaved)

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31.07.2009 10:38, Pavel Morozov

something between the first and second, still an oak tree.

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31.07.2009 10:40, Pavel Morozov

age 3. They grow fast and eat around the clock. They get a beautiful black color

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31.07.2009 10:43, Pavel Morozov

4th age. At this stage, the caterpillars begin to vary in size. Warts on the segments bear prickly spines. To my delight, they do not cause skin irritation.

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31.07.2009 10:48, Pavel Morozov

age 5. Mature caterpillars reach an impressive size, the spines become even more prickly, so that the caterpillar had to be taken very carefully with bare hands.
Below is a gallery of these beautiful caterpillars.

(in general, I continue to fight the spam filter. Each message is sent from the 3rd-4th time. Why should an honest forum member suffer from this bullshit???!!!)

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31.07.2009 10:49, Pavel Morozov

Caterpillars just before pupation.

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31.07.2009 10:53, Pavel Morozov

The pupae surprised me the most. They appeared by the second decade of July, roughly a month later.
The pupa is free, attached with a cremaster to the substrate.
Male pupae are almost twice as small as females.
(Just in case, the rest of the loop is on the previous page)

Interestingly, our new subspecies pupa is also free? Who deduced, please respond, pliiiz!

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31.07.2009 10:56, Pavel Morozov

Ah and this, as there: TA Daaam!
22.07. the first male (in appearance more similar to our subspecies.)
27.07. the first female is much larger than the male, the hind wings are pale pink.
I'll spread them out and put a "joint photo"of them

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07.08.2009 20:15, Pavel Morozov

And a few more pictures of the newly released female Lymantria mathura

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07.08.2009 21:53, barko

Russian woman from Iran (Zagros) needs to be identified

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01.09.2009 9:09, Pavel Morozov

I will return to the newly bred butterflies. I think it's worth demonstrating them in a straightened form.

Nygmia plana
male above

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01.09.2009 9:10, Pavel Morozov

Lymantria mathura
male top
laos

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01.09.2009 21:52, Zhuk

02.09.2009 8:21, Pavel Morozov

wonderful!!!

That's not all

02.09.2009 13:21, Pavel Morozov

Unusual both for the genus and for the family as a whole volnyanka
Lymantria semicincta Walker, 1855
female
Thailand, leg. V. Sinyaev
The species lives in the Himalayas and Indochina peninsula

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02.09.2009 19:45, А.Й.Элез

Russian woman from Iran (Zagros) needs to be identified

If it turned yellow from waterlogging, which can be judged by the condition of the hairline and by the predominant yellowing along the veins, then, M. B., just a variation of the male melania? See fragments of text and tables from volume 2. Seitz's guide to the Palearctic.

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02.09.2009 20:10, barko

02.09.2009 22:45, А.Й.Элез

Seitz has no separate illustrations for Iran, but I attach the general ones. Although it is unlikely that the second, say, type of these illustrations will give something new. At the same time, I attach clippings from the text.

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03.09.2009 1:13, barko

03.09.2009 7:57, Pavel Morozov

And this, as I understand it, is Euroctis kargalica
Kazakhstan, Tien Shan village, Trans-Ili Alatau

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11.09.2009 10:37, Pavel Morozov

Another brood unpawn from Southeast Asia.

Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata (Moore, 1879)
Southern Thailand
Material (eggs) obtained from V. Sinyaev

1st instar caterpillars, June.
I started feeding them oak, then switched them to goat willow. They didn't eat the narrow-leaved one.
They turned out to be quite capricious, and out of a large brood, about 2 dozen caterpillars reached the second age.

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11.09.2009 10:38, Pavel Morozov

II age
Consistently eat, grow.

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11.09.2009 10:39, Pavel Morozov

Age III. The caterpillars have changed a lot in color after the second molt

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11.09.2009 10:41, Pavel Morozov

At age IV, the drawing resembles a starry sky

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11.09.2009 10:42, Pavel Morozov

V age. At this stage, it is clearly visible who will be the male and who will be the female. The latter are noticeably larger.

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