Moscow and the Moscow region

I have seen Limax cinereoniger several times in the Teplostansky Forest Park (Southern Administrative District of Moscow). In the CC of Moscow, it is also not given from there.

Today I took a walk in the Uzkoe Park in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. I wanted to confirm that Myrmidon lived there. As a result, I saw something similar, but from afar. I couldn't catch up But I saw a lot of other lepidoptera:

Hesperiidae
Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer, 1808)

Pieridae
Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777)
Colias hyale (Linnaeus, 1758)
? Colias myrmidone (Esper, 1781)
Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758)
Leptidea cf. sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nymphalidae
Aglais io (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)
Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Argynnis adippe (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775)
Argynnis paphia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lycaenidae
Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cupido argiades (Pallas, 1771)
Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)

Zygaenidae
Zygaena filipendulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geometridae
Scotopteryx chenopodiata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chiasmia clathrata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Noctuidae
Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)

This post was edited by chebur - 27.07.2016 22: 55

This year, on June 4, I went to see Helle in Andreevskoe and observed egeria there. I don't know if it's been cited from there before.

I just think that not everyone considers this species worthy of being "brought" every time. When V. P. Volkov and I were walking along the road from the Andreevskaya edge to the Solntseva glade (and even from there further to the lake). Deep), then we met most helle in the Solntseva glade itself (although there were individual departures starting from the edge of the Andreevsky forest), eunomia was also clustered there, and aegeria and achine were found in the forest around the glade. This was in the mid-1990s.

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 07/28/2016 02: 41

I just think that not everyone considers this species worthy of being "brought" every time. When V. P. Volkov and I were walking along the road from the Andreevskaya edge to the Solntseva glade (and even from there further to the lake). Deep), then we met most helle in the Solntseva glade itself (although there were individual departures starting from the edge of the Andreevsky forest), eunomia was also clustered there, and egeria and achine were found in the forest around the glade. This was in the mid-1990s.

Yes, egeria I came across in MO in all the places where I collected. Apparently, the usual view in the area, although entered in the CC.

Especially, in the west, the MO is usually

By the way, in your opinion, are there any really interesting places in the west of the Moscow Region (Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk and Naro-Fominsk directions)? Not counting the swamps. And then on the Mozhaisk direction in general, in my opinion, there is nothing comparable to the PTZ or Meshchera, even the valley of the Moskva River (Sanatorium there or Volkovo-Gigirevo) does not stretch...

If you don't count the swamps, should you also deduct the surrounding areas? Then almost everything is empty.
If you take into account all sorts of territories, then, although there is no such junction of complexes as in the south of the region (in particular, in the vicinity of the PTZ, where Orion flies not very far from optilet, and Crocea from paleno), in the west, of course, there is still something.

The neighborhood of the former village of Staroruzskie Khutor is a very interesting place. Since the mid-1990s, there have been some more or less interesting lepidoptera: dominula, iris, helle, and occasionally titania. For iris in MO and today only there and go (in my reports there were photos from there-drying svezhevyvedennoy female, preparing for the act of a couple and even a freshly laid egg on a goat willow leaf). I remember photographing several Apatura on small carrion like toads, so they were all irises. Raz noted there the luxurious yellow form of a female iris. Dominula is also thriving today. Once a luxury russiae was taken (when it was still very rare even under Lishnyagami; and even today you don't expect it in the west of MO somehow). Flocciferus is singly recorded. North-east of the village. Staraya Ruza in the priopushechny swampy meadow was noted as a common species of eunomia.

To the north of the village of Vasilyevskoye, Ruzsky district (where T. Zhuk recently entered, the border with Odintsovo district), on the edge of the cemetery, there has been a stable population of spring notha in the last thirty years (denser than in other known points, starting from Izmailovsky Park and ending in the vicinity of Zvenigorod or Porechye, which is east of Tuchkov): once I filmed, still on videotape, a meeting of five springboks on a bird's toadstool, of which all five were notha males. Although parthenias are certainly plentiful there. Irises are extremely rare there, but there are some. In 1969, in the forest north of Vasilyevsky celebrated a massive year of mourning, with just a wet track in the forest soared at the approach of one and a half dozen butterflies, in subsequent decades, the species was then rare, then few. Dominula in that forest is locally numerous, and fluctuations from year to year are almost invisible. On the southern edge (from the village of ie), laodika was occasionally observed in the early 1970s. In 1974. there was a massive growth of ilia and Limenitis populi, in the second type there were even a lot of females at the bottom (this year, I remember, along with 1972 was later noted by Brezhnev as terribly dry in the report of the Central Committee to the Congress), machaon was singly noted, which was extremely rare in the Moscow Region in those years. From an outsider, a brood of chipmunks and lynx tracks were recorded in that forest in the very beginning of the 2000s; hares, wild boars, and moose are common there, and in 1974, in a ravine in the vicinity of a hunting hut, the corpse of a fox was found near a badger hole, which apparently died during an invasion attempt. Today, judging by satellite images, the forest looks good only on foot along the perimeter, and inside there are already solid bald spots of cuttings (but I can't blame you – I've known the forest since 1969, and it was already old). In the village itself, in 1969-1971, a mass flight of Prionus coriarius and Geotrupes stercorarius was recorded, and on October 7, 1985, a male Trichiura crataegi was taken under a street lamp in the evening.

By the way, lynx tracks were recorded once in the same forest area, but much lower along the Moskva River, between the river and the village of Lokotnya, on the approach from the north to a high swamp with cranberries and so on.

The neighborhood of Skorotovo near Zvenigorod, both in the direction of the Moskva River and in the direction of Raevo, contains little interesting, but for some species it is very productive-dominula, aegeria, tau, Endromis, notha.

I don't remember anything else interesting offhand. Yes, and from what has been said, something can be found on the site of T. Insectamo based on the materials of our late friend V. P. Volkov and here on old reports. In general, the western direction is most interesting to start from the Setuni floodplain to the west. from Victory Park in Moscow...

If you don't count the swamps, should you also deduct the surrounding areas?

Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed report! Unfortunately, all he did was convince me that there was nothing particularly interesting to find in the west of MO other than swamp views and titania. But I understood about Staraya Ruza, I hope this biotope was not mowed down by a recent tornado) By the way, the forests in the vicinity of Pestovo are also quite wild - there are moose, wild boars, foxes, martens and possibly some other martens, I walk on them with caution. Have you ever visited the Protva River Valley in the vicinity of the villages of Dubrovo and Vyshegorod to the south of Vereya? At the beginning of August, I once went for a walk there and didn't find anything special (even the plants of the Oka flora don't seem to be there), but the light of fishing in that biotope makes my hands itch.

I don't know those places in Protva.

If Titania is still interesting for you, then it is more expedient to go for it and for Helle not to Staraya Ruza. I met them locally in the mass at the junction of the Istra and Solnechnogorsk districts-between the villages. Sokolovo and Ognikovo (available on insectamo.ru), and Titanius is also behind Zhidovina, on the approach by the path to Tadenka (from sh. Danki-Igumnovo) along the north. part of the eastern border of the PTZ, through damp forest clearings (but before the trail leaves the gas clearing). From there, I once posted a snapshot of titanias in mating (I think). There is also, by the way, mnemosyne a lot plus swampy something; next to the swamp, on the edges of which we once observed a mass withdrawal, oddly enough, plantaginis (on insectamo.ru two specimens caught by V. P. Volkov in this place at that time are marked as caught in the village of Danki).

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 17.11.2018 01: 54

Wow, how well painted!
Allow me a few words, as if in addition:

Not for nothing is the dominula called the dominula - in the west, the M. O. clearly dominates the rest. Even Kaya is rippling through her years. I remember that in Chigasovo (very close to Skorotovo) in the mid-90s dominuli stopped coming across for 3-4 years at all, but kaya was numerous in those years. Then, from the beginning of the noughties, the dominant again lived up to its name.
Very nice place Slashchevo, near the border with the Smolensk region. We don't go there often, but there are some interesting things. Many, many in June 2011 was avriniy, caught at the same time and dominula, and plantaginis.
As for avrinias, a copy was collected in Chigasovo as early as 1994, but then they did not come across at all. But last year, on an overgrown clearing, 2 km from the previous place, a lot of people showed up again.
Egeria there consistently come across, I have been watching them since 1993.
Iris regularly, coincidentally also caught only a bred female )) .

There is one "but" - the forests in the west are heavily cut down. Many places are now unrecognizable.

  
The neighborhood of the former village of Staroruzskie Khutor is a very interesting place. Since the mid-1990s, there have been some more or less interesting lepidoptera: dominula, iris, helle, and occasionally titania. For iris in MO and today only there and go (in my reports there were photos from there-drying svezhevyvedennoy female, preparing for the act of a couple and even a freshly laid egg on a goat willow leaf).

Iris is a common (almost mass) butterfly in the north of the Moscow Region in the Sergeyev Posad district. Dominula three years ago in the same place set a record for the number of copies per night-there were a little more than 100 of them on the screen. Kai there has never been so much

Wow, how well painted!
Allow me a few words, as if in addition:

Not for nothing is the dominula called the dominula - in the west, the M. O. clearly dominates the rest. Even Kaya is rippling through her years. I remember that in Chigasovo (very close to Skorotovo) in the mid-90s dominuli stopped coming across for 3-4 years at all, but kaya was numerous in those years. Then, from the beginning of the noughties, the dominant again lived up to its name.
Very nice place Slashchevo, near the border with the Smolensk region. We don't go there often, but there are some interesting things. Many, many in June 2011 was avriniy, caught at the same time and dominula, and plantaginis.
As for avrinias, a copy was collected in Chigasovo as early as 1994, but then they did not come across at all. But last year, on an overgrown clearing, 2 km from the previous place, a lot of people showed up again.
Egeria there consistently come across, I have been watching them since 1993.
Iris regularly, coincidentally also caught only a bred female )).

Avrinia regularly comes across me here and there in Pestovo... the fact is that one of its food plants is sivets (like korostavnik, but blooms in August-September), so you just need to look for glades with it. And recently I found a damp meadow with valerian and a feed view of veronica for mathurna near the Lucinskoe highway. It will be necessary to look for her there in June, along with the mottled sappho, since the lipnyak on the slope leading to this meadow is full of spring rank.

There is a lot of sivets in Chigasovo and Khlyupino.

Here is another butterfly - Alexis. I got caught in Discord, and then the population was noticed in Khlyupino. But here's where they were full-on the side of the highway near the village of Ramensky (Taldomsky district, Meldino square) 25.06.2005. Moreover, it is on the side of the highway. By the way, there and then on the edge of the swamp - a female plantaginis. But Paleno was not seen then. They say they used to go there and along Dmitrov highway near the village of Rastovtsy.
Teleius (or let it be Euphemus ) it is also seen growing in Puddles in a damp meadow with blood soup. We may be talking about the same places.

And in Chigasovo (and probably many other places) there is the "elusive" Penemeria tenebrata.
Along the edge of the clearing in the shade with sunny glades on buttercups and other late spring flowers. Then, despite regular excursions, she did not come across in those places. But I flew through the garden several times in the past and the year before last.

have you ever seen Paleno in the west of the region?

And in Chigasovo (and probably many other places) there is the "elusive" Penemeria tenebrata.
Along the edge of the clearing in the shade with sunny glades on buttercups and other late spring flowers. Then, despite regular excursions, she did not come across in those places. But I flew through the garden several times in the past and the year before last.

Something I have not seen a tenebrata for a long time, even though the forest in which it flew in places was cut down, and tons of asterisks grew on the sides of the clearing. And about Paleno in the west of the region, I only heard a rumor that it was once seen on the Sim.

Avrinia comes across sporadically at various points, never specifically memorized. But on the clearing of the power line at the intersection with the ring regional railway in the area of the Pozhitkovo station (near the Bekasovo station), I definitely saw it. I'm just talking about the west.

There is a lot of sivets in Chigasovo and Khlyupino.

Here is another butterfly - Alexis. I got caught in Discord, and then the population was noticed in Khlyupino. But here's where they were full-on the side of the highway near the village of Ramensky (Taldomsky district, Meldino square) 25.06.2005. Moreover, it is on the side of the highway.

Alexis is a stable population in the Setuni floodplain in Moscow. I've known him for forty years. Moreover, the period of years is very long, at the latest from June to August at the earliest. The main lair there is the southern shoulder and southern slope of the Kievskaya railway near the electric distribution section (between Minskaya St. and the Setun River), but there are also other places. Local historians also pointed it out on the Kolomenskoye estate. After platform 49 km along Kazanka on the northern shoulder of the railway On the road to BAM (Okoyemovo) from the sh., going east from Taldom, at the very beginning (i.e. along the edge of the field even before the road goes to the peat bogs), as well as in other places in that district along the roadsides. Near the septic tanks on the hump in front of the plant, KIM was on Ryabinovaya Street about twenty years ago (I didn't see it later); however, this is also the Setuni floodplain. Somewhere else, but I don't remember yet.

Here I remembered that they caught (maybe ten years ago) Alexis in a power line clearing just outside the MKAD opposite Medvedki, from Chelobitiev (i.e. along the northern border of Moscow).

Surroundings of the Tugolesye platform, 2-3. 08. 2016
A lot of things were flying. The most interesting part is below
Catocala electa 1pc.


Xylena solidaginis 2 pcs. (after 00: 00)






I didn't find it from the Germans

Little Sideridis. Sideridis kitti ?






Acleris variegana

Aristotelia ericinella?

Sideridis-Calaena haworthii

Eupithecia pusillata (1,2,4)

3-virgaureata

Bad search, or in the wrong family. This is Agonopterix hypericella, you've already met it once)

Serebryanoprudsky district, Lishnyagi village, 01.08.16.
Finally managed to get out and fish in Excess! I expected to see a slightly different set of species, but, unfortunately, it was already too late for galatians and mottles, only a few viciae and osterodensis flew. But the trip turned out to be wonderful in terms of pigeons. In addition to a huge number of minimus, coridon and daphnis, some rare species were also caught. After trapping and checking several dozen icaruses, two (male and female) specimens of Polyommatus thersites were still caught! However, the most valuable butterfly was a specimen of Phengaris nausithous. Navzitoy flew 50 meters downstream from the bridge, where the hill turns into a flat river bank. Both thersites were found almost in the same place.

Thymelicus lineola
Thymelicus sylvestris
Leptidea sp.
Gonepteryx rhamni
Colias hyale
Colias myrmidone
Lycaena virgaureae
Lycaena tityrus
Cupido minimus
Cupido argiades
Phengaris nausithous
Plebejus argyrognomon
Polyommatus coridon
Polyommatus daphnis
Polyommatus icarus
Polyommatus thersites
Pararge aegeria
Coenonympha pamphilus
Maniola jurtina
Boloria dia
Issoria lathonia
Argynnis adippe
Araschnia levana
Vanessa atalanta
Vanessa cardui
Aglais io
Zygaena filipendulae
Zygaena viciae
Zygaena osterodensis
Scopula immorata

Phengaris nausithous

Polyommatus coridon

Aglais io

Zygaena viciae

Congratulations! Navzitoy is a great find! 2 years ago, I also met him once on the slope of Polosni.

No, and why, they were very badly broken, as they should be now.

No, and why, they were very badly broken, as they should be now.

It's just that there are probably only minos out there right now. We didn't find any osterodensis last year at the end of July.

Did navzitoy fly on the other side of the river where the Lishniaks are? Relative to the bridge from the village or from the steep slope?

I saw small mottled birds that looked more like osterodensis in their pattern, or maybe they were also such minos...
He was flying at full tilt on the bank, where the Lishniaks were standing on the side of a steep slope.
In general, here:

Pictures:

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I saw small mottled birds that looked more like osterodensis in their pattern, or maybe they were also such minos...

Yeah, I also thought last year that they were different in the drawing)
But in fact-in osterodensis, the border on the hind wings is wide (read: noticeable), in minos-narrow (read: invisible).

I also know this feature, but I usually focus on both the border and the drawing.
I didn't look at these mottled birds in Lishnyags, they looked like osterodensis from above... Most likely it was minos, it was necessary to look at the border.
Now I'll know that the border is a priority feature. Thanks)

For osterodensis there-terribly late, of course, even for the skinned one.

Yesterday I checked my eruginosa point to the north. from Dedinovo. 1 copy found. (it seems to be a female); also 1 copy. fiberi. Also, more than ten copies each. three species of Nicrophorus: humator, investigator, and vespillo. The following species of butterflies were recorded: rare jurtina and icarus flown; medium-fresh rare pamphilus; fresh rare daplidice / edusa and even 1 specimen of clathrata. A large nest of storks is being tracked (an adult pair and two young ones). The heat is near thirty, calm, everything is almost extinct.

Eucarta virgo (identified by Alexander Boldyrev-insectamo) has settled on Voinova Gora, the caterpillar is mowed down on 1.08.2016, eats wormwood. It's a pity she doesn't live long, although she can reach the pupa.


12.08.2016




Stauropus fagi from an egg from a female Lichen 26.06.2016
Eating willow (12.08.2016)

I disturbed the caterpillar

Calms down

And eat again


The post was edited by Gennadich - 12.08.2016 17: 24

Eucarta virgo (identified by Alexander Boldyrev-insectamo) has settled on Voinova Gora, the caterpillar is mowed down on 1.08.2016, eats wormwood. It's a pity she doesn't live long, although she can reach the pupa.

A parasite? And how did you determine it?
Phaga's pictures are great!

A parasite? And how did you determine it?
Phaga's pictures are great!

From the experiment, red marks the areas of injections or a violation of the pattern.

Now the caterpillar Mythimna conigera from Lichens is infected with the parasite.
The same anomaly

The caterpillar successfully pupated

But it wasn't a butterfly that came out



The post was edited by Gennadich - 12.08.2016 21: 24

So my friends, you will be the first to see the development cycle of Diachrysia zosimi.
Eggs were given by one of the females brought from Lishnyag.
On the Internet, I read that caterpillars, in addition to krovokhlebki, sometimes eat rosaceae, in the country there is a rosehip that I suggested to the larvae. and what was my surprise that three larvae eat the proposed food.
And so we went.
M. O., Serebryano-Prudsky district, Lishnyagi village, 25-26. june 2016

28.06.2016


4.07.2016


9.07.2016


13.07.2016


20.07.2016




30.07.2016




2.08.2016





6.08.2016 wove a cocoon on the wall of the jar

13.08.2016




P.S.
One caterpillar faded badly and died, and another one is still feeding.

The post was edited by Gennadich - 08/16/2016 22: 26

Just looked in a jar with a pupa and there Diachrysia zosimi dries the wings.
Tomorrow I'll take a picture and post it to complete the full cycle.

I forgot to tell you-maybe it's still interesting for someone - on Sunday, Dad came from the dacha and brought a nymph of a female praying mantis, which he caught in the garden.

I forgot to tell you-maybe it's still interesting for someone - on Sunday, Dad came from the dacha and brought a nymph of a female praying mantis, which he caught in the garden.

It would be interesting if the point was specified...