Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

This is not a bellargus, it has a mottled fringe. This is apparently icarus.
Egg clutches - unpaired silkworm L. dispar.
On sagebrush, salt marshes, grudnitsy now is the time to look for caterpillars of various Cucullia. In the Crimea, tanaceti is now found en masse, xeranthemi is found, and argentina and virgaureae can also be found.

Very interesting, okoem, I also thought about looking for them. Can they be found on sagebrushes that grow on vacant lots and sand? Or is it better in the virgin steppe?

Very interesting, okoem, I also thought about looking for them. Can they be found on sagebrushes that grow on vacant lots and sand? Or is it better in the virgin steppe?

They can be anywhere. Virgin steppe is absolutely not required. I have near the house on the side of the road on many bushes of wormwood C. tanaceti sit several pieces at once. It is better to search in the morning or in the late afternoon. In the middle of the day, they are poorly visible, and maybe some of them hide.

A short report on Lasiommata megera in the Khmelnitsky region. The species is very rare, in 2002 3 females were collected at two points in the north of the region, two in late May and one in early August, and since then it has never been recorded again. And on Sunday 14.09 I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood of Slavuta, where I live permanently only for the second year, and right next to the house I literally stumble over the freshest male megera (third generation?), he chose a small spot between the houses with rare nondescript bushes. But it had to have come from somewhere, didn't it? Well, today I am walking with my family just past a suitable place for a vixen, just 200 meters from our house, and almost without surprise I see a fresh female calmly flying from flower to flower. Unfortunately, there was only a mobile phone at hand, but the fact was recorded. A little later, after a walk with the child, I returned there again, but to no avail, I drove agestis that were not banal with us, and took some pictures. The photo is from a video camera, so the quality is appropriate.

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On September 17, we visited the forest and meadows somewhere between Kardashinka and Solontsy, Kherson region. I can't say exactly where we were. I forgot to take the map; we went a little wrong from the very beginning, as a result, we walked between dachas, on hayfields and in a small piece of forest that belongs to some aunt, she kicked us out of there (although there were no signs). There were more butterflies in the meadows where there are flowers. There are a lot of yolks there. The dragonfly Chalcolestes sp. also flew through the forest.

This week it has turned a few degrees colder, so hiking has become more pleasant.

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Just like last year, I was pleased to meet Lampides boeticus (this time between dachas on the road):

I took a walk today, September 20, a little in the evening on the steppe site in Kherson (Tavrichesky microdistrict). I was looking for caterpillars.





Found one like this, with the definition is difficult...

The caterpillar is H. armigera.

I took a walk today, September 20, a little in the evening on the steppe site in Kherson (Tavrichesky microdistrict). I was looking for caterpillars.

If you know sandy areas with sea mustard, pickle, then now is the time to look for it here are some of them interesting tracks. You need to search in cloudy weather, at dusk, or at night. During the day, in clear weather, the caterpillar buries itself in the sand.

I want to share my genuine joy. I came across a small ground beetle at the end of August, right on the asphalt in the Rose Valley (the largest urban park in Chisinau, with a cascade of lakes). It was not possible to determine with a rush, for almost a month I rather stupidly combed the Internet in search of at least something similar. But just like there were a lot of similar ones, but everything is not the same. The mysterious bug! The terrible secret of the Valley of Roses! Scientists are shocked! And what's a shame, the beetle is characteristic, it's hard to make a mistake with the final definition. Yesterday I spat on the pictures, decided to apply the scientific method. I opened "green" and found all sorts in a row, except for obviously not suitable ones. I got to Masoreus - it seems to fit, looked at the view description (only one view) - even warmer, looked at the list of ground beetles of Moldova-there is! Well, the finale, I found a photo on the Internet - IT is! Masoreus wetterhallii (Gyllenhal, 1813).
And most importantly, I saw it on ZINA's website, but there is a drawing, I didn't recognize it.
That's the way things are! According to ZIN, the beetle is united in two tribes: Cyclosomini and Masoreini. Accordingly, it is represented by a photo and a drawing. In both cases, Masoreus wetterhallii is the only representative of the tribe. And no explanation. Can someone make it clear?

This post was edited by Chegar - 09/21/2014 16: 25

I want to share my genuine joy. I came across a small ground beetle at the end of August, right on the asphalt in the Rose Valley (the largest urban park in Chisinau, with a cascade of lakes). It was not possible to determine with a rush, for almost a month I rather stupidly combed the Internet in search of at least something similar. But just like there were a lot of similar ones, but everything is not the same. The mysterious bug! The terrible secret of the Valley of Roses! Scientists are shocked! And what's a shame, the beetle is characteristic, it's hard to make a mistake with the final definition. Yesterday I spat on the pictures, decided to apply the scientific method. I opened "green" and found all sorts in a row, except for obviously not suitable ones. I got to Masoreus - it seems to fit, looked at the view description (only one view) - even warmer, looked at the list of ground beetles of Moldova-there is! Well, the finale, I found a photo on the Internet - IT is! Masoreus wetterhallii (Gyllenhal, 1813).
And most importantly, I saw it on ZINA's website, but there is a drawing, I didn't recognize it.
That's the way things are! According to ZIN, the beetle is united in two tribes: Cyclosomini and Masoreini. Accordingly, it is represented by a photo and a drawing. In both cases, Masoreus wetterhallii is the only representative of the tribe. And no explanation. Can someone make it clear?

http://carabidae.org/taxa/masoreina

Zelyony gai-s settlement, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.Rzhavets September 22

The weather was quite sunny. Surprisingly, there were a lot of daytime ones. There was a hope to find more Colias crosea, but she never met. Although I caught it at this point in the old years. On the other hand, a flock of grey partridges met in an uncollected sunflower field, but it was a pity that they could not be photographed. Of the large dragonflies, Aeshna mixta was very numerous.

Lycaenidae:
Cupido argiades
Polyommatus icarus
Thecla betulae-2 flying females

Nymphalidae:
Issoria lathonia-single
Polygonia c-albm
Vanessa atalanta - single

Satyridae:
Coenonympha pamphilus

Pieridae:
Colias hyale
Pieris napi
Pontia edusa

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And we have a cold snap on September 22-24. Rain and storm swept through the region. On the evening of the 25th, the weather warmed up.

Today, 27.09, I was in Pisky in the vicinity of N. Kakhovka, Kherson region. The weather is warm and cloudy. Cucullius did not meet any caterpillars, but found others: 6-7 caterpillars of swallowtail, 3 - milkweed hawkmoth, 1-Sagittarius milkweed.

I took a walk near the sea today in the evening and brought such a trophy

Wow!!! But be vigilant. My similar trophy ended like this . Sorry-the photos are completely shitty from mobile phones in 2010, but the essence is visible. And my friend bred a beautiful luxury pair of Acherontia atropos. From the five caterpillars collected, two butterflies emerged, but a male and a female. So here's lotorea.

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Flies never sleep....

Hello! On Tuesday, I visited the Dnieper estuary in the vicinity of the villages of Shirokaya Balka and Stanislav. A steep bank, sometimes 30 meters high, or even more, many ravines, 2 deep gullies, rock outcrops on the slopes that are overgrown with grasshoppers! It will be very beautiful here in the spring. The weather was overcast, and I wasn't looking for insects much, but I met a steppe brushtail butterfly and several of its caterpillars.

The beam.
I think that Bavia, if it is here, can give a second generation, given that sage blooms.
Estuary coast.
Brushtail. The butterfly met at the bottom of the beam.

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The clay canyons are impressive. Children's happiness
And mega report from Chisinau. Today I came across the second Chrysolina Rossia in my practice. The first one is the day before yesterday, slightly crushed, but I gathered it in a ball when I tattooed it, it seems nothing, only one leg is missing and the elytra is cracked. And at first I took C. sanguinolenta for the usual one. But at home, I noticed the blue glow, I cleaned my sanguinolents on the mattresses, there are about five different years, all pure black. I see something else. And the prdsp form. also different, with a wedge. It is good when there is material and you can compare it. In short, a specific Chrysolina rossia was released.
I wonder why the German Johan Karl Wilhelm Illiger called the beetle that way in 1802?

On Sunday we went to the village of Lozovo (Mold. Strashensky district). With Igor, he is rare and local on the forum. I am for Cymindis, a jar of which I lost in the same places every day exactly a year ago, Igor - for Sarabus intracatus. Well, what else will come across.
Carabuses were found immediately, in the first deck under the bark. There were about five of them, and then in four hours of wandering through the forest, I didn't meet a single one. There were no tsimindis trees at all, it seems that the villagers cleaned the forest, took out all the fresh rampart and dead hornbeam, under the bark of which the beetles were discovered a year ago. For that, under the horse piles, the geotrups spiniger and stercorarius were taken for the shell. Igor also got an eruginosa, I got a female Sinodendron cylindricum, Anisodactylus signatus and a suspicious calatus. But apart from a pleasant fatigue, all these finds brought nothing. Still, Moldovan Codras are a reliable option, they won't let you go without a surprise. This time it was Xestobium rufovillosum, also from under the bark, already dry and not quite whole. But what a handsome man! 9 mm, the largest of my anobiids, elytra-perfect camouflage, brown background, large golden spots. And in general, it is some kind of real, forest, such in the city from the asphalt can not be lifted!
We went back. For the second time that day, we drove through the guts and blood smeared on the highway. In the morning, television crews and local policemen bustled around them. As it turned out, early in the morning a jeep with the mayor of Chisinau hit a horse to death. The wrecked Jeep and those guts are on TV for the second day. Well, we decided to turn into Capriany and finally dig into some interesting ones.. in general, in manure. The only cow was found on a strip of mown alfalfa, here are stale cakes, stuck. While we were poking around, Krova got up, came over and began to look at what we were doing there. We calmed her down, said that the tests were normal, and that she continued in the same spirit. The tortillas contained two types of onthophagus, two types of staphylin and three types of aphodiaceae. But! one of them turned out to be new to me - Aphodius borealis. There were a lot of beetles. a lot, they hung out on top of the tortilla, on the crust, and mated there. Took a series, 12 pcs. This discovery is all the more valuable because recently it has rarely been possible to extract anything new from the manure. Afodiev, for example, already has 23 species in the collection. All of them are Moldovan. Borealis - 24th. It's time to search for lists of families in Moldova.

It's good now in Codras. Heat. Light. Nicely. You shouldn't have gone, Alexander. http://ru.publika.md/link_1463891.html

This post was edited by Chegar - 14.10.2014 01: 04

Good afternoon dear forumchane!
The season is closed, at least for me, which is a pity. I would like to make at least a couple more trips.
Now it remains to disassemble the captured material, put it in its place and wait for the next one.
You can say a report for the entire season. Belarus Grodno region, Zelvensky district.
The farthest point is 10 km from Zelva, as well as the entire suburb of 1-4 km.

Big karabus-nemoralis?

What about Synaphe punctalis, Eucarta virgo, Cilix glaucata, Lasiocampa trifolii, Noctua janthe/janthina and Watsonalla cultraria in the Grodno region?
Drepanopteryx phalaenoides on 5 photos for the company or you don't know who it is?
On the 3rd from the end of the photo in the far left row between Pyralis regalis and Endotrichia flammealis - who is this?

Report for 19.10.2014, Kherson region, pos. Antonovka.

After a cold Saturday, a relatively warm and sunny Sunday arrived, and I got out on the bank of the Dnieper.










All animals love to bask on these slopes:

There were:

.. Belarus Grodno region, Zelvensky district ....

Very beautiful copy!

Big karabus-nemoralis?

Probably not good at beetles. I recently started collecting it.

What about Synaphe punctalis, Eucarta virgo, Cilix glaucata, Lasiocampa trifolii, Noctua janthe/janthina and Watsonalla cultraria in the Grodno region?
Drepanopteryx phalaenoides on 5 photos for the company or you don't know who it is?
On the 3rd from the end of the photo in the far left row between Pyralis regalis and Endotrichia flammealis - who is this?

Synaphe punctalis comes across but very rarely.Eucarta virgo - often and in large quantities.
Cilix glaucata is the first specimen of the collection. Lasiocampa trifolii - the first but previously found caterpillars on
alfalfa, tried to display failed. Noctua janthe/janthina - 2-4 pcs. periodically fly to the light. Watsonalla cultraria-got caught for the first time probably found the point.
Drepanopteryx phalaenoides-for the company, I was previously helped to identify this bug.
Between Pyralis regalis and Endotrichia flammealis-probably Epascestria pustulalis but not sure.

Between Pyralis regalis and Endotrichia flammealis-probably Epascestria pustulalis but not sure.

Yes, probably. It seems that she has such instances, with an undifferentiated pattern. I just thought about Tegostoma baphialis, but the southern species, which is not found either in Germany or near Moscow, would hardly have surfaced in Belarus.

Very beautiful copy!

I love this bifida too!

I love this bifida too!

and me!

Guys, I was blown away myself when I saw her on the screen.

This post was edited by Igar - 27.10.2014 21: 04

Yesterday, Barry and I went to the woods. There will be a report soon.

And the day before yesterday, I collected beetles from the family under the bark of an oak (standing and shrunken). Bothrideridae: Bothrideres bipunctatus (Gmelin, 1790)
Kharkiv region, northern part of the village. Babai 27. X. 2014

Photo from the website of Boris Loboda (Barry)

18 beetles were collected, 2 fell into the litter and probably a few more-when the bark was torn off, they flew away. Barry said that the bug is not banal!

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In Moldova - a common beetle. Did you find anything other than bipunctatus?

28.10.2014. Chuguevsky district, district of the village. Eshar, pltf. Dachas.
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=179

We were with Artur Shekhovtsov (Liparus). At night, it froze (around -10), in the morning it was around zero, in the afternoon it was predicted to be around +5. Sun and almost complete calm. The puddles did not thaw completely during the day, only in sunny places they slightly thawed at the edges. There's frost under the bark, too.

In Moldova - a common beetle. Did you find anything other than bipunctatus?

1 Platidema violacea

1 Platidema violacea

A good bug. I can even say that we have no choice. I first found it just three years ago, under the bark of an acacia tree stump. I was happy as a child (before that I saw them in the Reaper collection). Now I already have them from various places, but I'm still taking them. What I would like to find is Platydema dejeanii. there are instructions for it in Adygea, probably the entire Caucasus, and for the Moscow City Administration. regions (Beloomut, railway station. Chernaya, N. Nikitsky, all in the window traps). We should have it, and so should Ukraine. Did you find it by chance? if so, under what conditions, biotope, M. B. certain tree species?
On macroid.ru there is a mention of Platydema europaea from the Kharkiv region. Also a cool bug!

This post was edited by Chegar - 02.11.2014 23: 04

Platydema dejeani was collected in the Ternopil region on old carpophores of Bjerkandera adusta from hornbeam. In them, as well as under the adjacent bark, larvae were collected from which beetles were then bred. They are also known from Transcarpathia, Zhytomyr, Kiev regions and from the Crimea, and in general from the forest zone. I'm sure there are some in Moldova, too. As for Platydema europaea from the Kharkiv region, this is unlikely. P. europaea is known to me only from the Crimea.

About Platydema europaea from the Kharkiv region-I apologize, I got excited, I lost my temper. I didn't read the information (http://macroid.ru/showgallery.php?cat=102303). And about P. dejeani on a certain type of mushrooms, which we have-thank you very much. However, these or very similar fungi are eviscerated many times, only the ubiquitous Nalassus dermestoides, quite rarely Cryphaeus cornutus (these were taken by larvae, young beetles turned out to be red as dogwood) and Tritoma bipustulata (Erotylidae). But purposefully searching is a completely different matter. Now I'll find it.
And Platydema europaea is the only photoshopped image on the web. Someone would post a normal photo.

About Platydema europaea from the Kharkiv region-I apologize, I got excited, I lost my temper. I didn't read the information (http://macroid.ru/showgallery.php?cat=102303). And about P. dejeani on a certain type of mushrooms, which we have-thank you very much. However, these or very similar fungi are eviscerated many times, only the ubiquitous Nalassus dermestoides, quite rarely Cryphaeus cornutus (these were taken by larvae, young beetles turned out to be red as dogwood) and Tritoma bipustulata (Erotylidae). But purposefully searching is a completely different matter. Now I'll find it.
And Platydema europaea is the only photoshopped image on the web. Someone would post a normal photo.

By Platydema europaea, except photo on BioLib which you probably have in mind, there is also a series of photos from German Wikipedia.
P. dejeani in the Moscow region was found twice, both times in the Shatursky district, in dry deciduous pegs with an abundance of dead wood, on tinder boxes (I can't say the exact type, but they look like Daedaleopsis), on dry broken birch trees, in the lower part of trunks (up to 1m), in July, in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, the fees were not saved.
N. and B. Nikitsky [2013] cites the following data:
"A stenotope, a forest and mycetophilic, tinder-bearing species, which we did not observe in the Moscow region until 2011. Mycetophage. In forests, usually on warm slopes, and in gardens (Koch, 1989b). It develops in woody fungi. It is recorded on Bjerkandera adusta, Daedaleopsis confragosa (in both cases with larvae), Ganoderma applanatum, Trametes gibbosa, Pleurotus sp. and some others [Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko, 2011]. According to our observations, beetles live from June to August. In general, it is local and rare."
It is interesting that the mentioned work of Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko does not provide such data on this species

This post was edited by Barnaba - 03.11.2014 14: 18

01.11.2014. Kharkiv, Forest Park
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=180



the recent report on Dachas has also been updated
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=179

01.11.2014. Kharkiv, Forest
Park and updated the recent report on "Dachas"

slonov signed