Galacticidae

Or can you name the wingspan or post a photo in comparison with some banal?

= Zarcinia melanozestas MEYRICK, 1935 from Dagestan. There is evidence that the caterpillars live in nests (like stoats) and a possible food plant is tamarisk.

Butterfly size comparable to ermine moth

the wingspan is slightly more than a centimetre

= Zarcinia melanozestas MEYRICK, 1935 from Dagestan. There is evidence that the caterpillars live in nests (like stoats) and a possible food plant is a tamarisk.

I can say for sure that where I caught it, tamarisk and did not smell )) clearly something steppe from her feed.

= Zarcinia melanozestas MEYRICK, 1935 from Dagestan. There is evidence that the caterpillars live in nests (like stoats) and a possible food plant is a tamarisk.

In the Catalog, this name is interpreted as a synonym for walsinghami...

There is very little information on this little-known moth family on the web. In the fauna of Russia, there is 1 species known from the Volga-Don, Lower Volga, and East Caucasus regions (according to the catalog of lepidoptera of the Russian Federation). I didn't find any images of this type at all. I was able to collect this species at two locations in the south of the Omsk region (the first find of the species in the Asian part of the Russian Federation). Biotope-steppe. Years in August. I put here the first image of this type on the Internet ))
Galactica walsinghami (Caradja, 1920)
= Zarcinia melanozestas MEYRICK, 1935
Thanks to D. Shovkun and V. V. Zolotukhin for their help in determining the problem.

Cool, Glory!
I will at least know what it looks like=)

Cool, Glory!
I'll at least know what it looks like =)

Well )) I know it myself now ))

In general, as Anikin wrote in the corresponding article in Atalanta, there are at least two species of this family in Russia.

It is not yet clear whether the name pluripunctella Caradja, 1920, described together with walsinghami as a variation of it (a specimen from Kalmykov, Rostov region-although it may have meant Kalmykia? but it is written Kalmyk).

In general, as Anikin wrote in the corresponding article in Atalanta, there are at least two species of this family in Russia.

It is not yet clear whether the name pluripunctella Caradja, 1920, described together with walsinghami as a variation of it (a specimen from Kalmykov, Rostov region-although it may have meant Kalmykia? but it is written Kalmyk).

this should be checked by type.

this should be checked by type.

If they were saved...

If they were saved...

walsinghami is definitely there, but not at its best.. I don't know the other one...

And don't forget that the Siberian-pacific Homadaula anisocentra Meyrick, 1922 is also a Galacticid. See the photo at http://www.jpmoth.org/Galacticidae/.
The name pluripunctella Caradja, 1920 does not apply to the "second" species. That is, there are 3 types of families in the Russian Federation. Minimum.

In general, it would be nice to find out if anyone has material on this group from the territory of the Russian Federation and Central Asia. There are a lot of questions there. The group is arid and tends towards semi-deserts and deserts.

In general, it would be nice to find out if anyone has material on this group from the territory of the Russian Federation and Central Asia. There are a lot of questions there. The group is arid and tends towards semi-deserts and deserts.

I have. I plan to transfer it to ZIN, along with my other micra from Central Asia.

It would be good to do this in the not too distant future, before April, as we are just about to reach a consensus on the species status of a couple of Central Asian populations by this time.

Still, today, in honor of the holiday, fate gave me a pleasant surprise!
On August 14, in the topic "Identification of larvae and pupae", I posted photos of caterpillars of unknown origin found on kermek. http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...dpost&p=1341505 today, in the cage where the cocoons of those very caterpillars were located, a female appeared who would you think? Of course Galactica walsinghami!! So, as I suggested, the food plant of this species is "something steppe" (at least in the conditions of the south of Western Siberia) kermek ?Gmelina. All stages of development (except for the egg) are recorded, so I will probably prepare a publication on the biology of this species.

This post was edited by Konung - 02/23/2013 19: 23

Super data. Congratulations. The article would be nice in English and in wide access, at least in a Note.