Siberia

Fresh report!
Caught tonight in the western part of the region, in the forest-steppe zone. The target is Eriogaster lanestris. There is still a lot of snow in the forest, in some places up to the knee. But mostly it's already melted and wet everywhere. Biotope - a small forest with a predominance of birch, pine, aspen, acacia, wild rose, willow in the undergrowth. They shone both in the forest and in the clearings. Only three lamps (two DRL-250 and 1 DRV-250). The weather was not the most flying, cloudy in the afternoon, about +13, a slight breeze, in the evening it got slightly colder and began to clear up. There wasn't much hope of catching anything.
At dusk, as soon as the lamps were lit, the first trophy was a male lanestris!!! Then another one! after a few C. vaccinii and A. flavicornis, then two more lanestris females arrived! Furor! Goal achieved! After half an hour, it got quite cold and only one X. vetusta and a couple of sluggish C. vaccinii arrived for an hour. On the baits almost nothing, apparently frozen completely. It seems to me that these butterflies of lanestris are almost the first to be caught in the light in the Asian part of its range.

A. Matov says that it is also not often found in the European part of Russia. We are now quite common, but the exolet is much rarer and only in the south. By the way, in the neighboring Pavlodar region, on the contrary, the exolet is common, and in my opinion, the vetusta has not even been caught yet...

Here in the Ivanovo region, X. vetusta is distributed throughout the entire territory of the region, but it is rare everywhere.I caught it only once at my dacha in the Shuisky district.But X. exsoleta in the Ivanovo region is generally distributed only in one copy.A specimen of this species was collected by Sergey Chastilov (Papis) in autumn in the town of Teykovo, Teykovsky district, Ivanovo region.

Here in the Ivanovo region, X. vetusta is distributed throughout the entire territory of the region, but it is rare everywhere.I caught it only once at my dacha in the Shuisky district.But X. exsoleta in the Ivanovo region is generally distributed only in one copy.

try to catch odorous baits in spring and autumn - both types should fly!

On April 13, we opened the season with Garisson near Krasnoyarsk. I haven't seen the light this early yet.I had a great desire to catch Brachionycha sajana, and it came true. One copy each arrived. each Brachionycha species. T +5 gr.
Once again, thank you Barko for your help in determining.

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O. fragariae has never been seen before.

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Conistrs flew en masse.

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Tomorrow I will try to fix the result. But with E. lanestris something is not lucky, although I. S. Zakharzhevsky found caterpillars. Can Konung share the catch ?

This post was edited by MIV-15.04.2011 21: 21

As far as I understand, this situation is not only in Hungary. A. Matov says that it is also not often found in the European part of Russia. We are now quite common, but the exolet is much rarer and only in the south. By the way, in the neighboring Pavlodar region, on the contrary, the exolet is common, and in my opinion, the vetusta has not even been caught yet...

13.04.2011 the first Xylena vetusta was caught on the territory of Pavlodar region, but the finds of X. exsoleta belong to the more eastern territories of the neighboring East Kazakhstan region.

I got out on April 16 to see how bedbugs are doing at this time (Tyumen region, roc. Tyumen). I got out, however, without special tools, without traps, etc. Before that, it was still April 10-the snow was knee-deep in the forest in some places, but in thawed areas, Rhyparochromus pini was already merrily chased along the leaves in indecent numbers. I also found one Kleidoceris resedae.
This time everything was more fun - in the ground, in addition to the upcoming ones, Scolopostethus sp.is already crawling with might and main. - and I have a suspicion that in addition to the usual Sc. thomsoni, we also managed to catch Sc. pilosus (also not very rare). From other ground beetles, while not determining up to the species, I caught Trapezonotus sp., Drrymus sp., Megalonotus sp. and another one, the definition of which I was still tormented that year: as if by all signs the dreamus was doubled. Other beetles include Lygus pratensis, Elasmucha grisea, and Sciocoris microphthalmus. And yes, I could have sworn I saw a real Pirrhocoris apterus in the grass!!!: D

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At dusk, as soon as the lamps were lit, the first trophy was a male lanestris!!! Then another one! after a few C. vaccinii and A. flavicornis, then two more lanestris females arrived! Furor! Goal achieved! After half an hour, it got quite cold and only one X. vetusta and a couple of sluggish C. vaccinii arrived for an hour. On the baits almost nothing, apparently frozen completely. It seems to me that these butterflies of lanestris are almost the first to be caught in the light in the Asian part of its range.

On April 16, Garison made an attempt to consolidate the result of the previous fishing trip. True, the deployment was somewhat changed.Steepened slopes with birch spikes, instead of a pine-birch forest. The temperature was +10 degrees centigrade until 2 a.m., which is extremely unusual for this time of year in our region. The sky is clear by planting time, the moon is almost full and very bright.
Unfortunately, Brachionycha sajana never arrived, but as soon as it got dark, the female Eriogaster lanestris arrived. This is luck!
I. S. Zakharzhevsky said that only once he found a nest with caterpillars on a boneyard. But most of the caterpillars were infected, and those that pupated died in the translucent stage of the wings.
I put the female in a jar under cheesecloth and placed her next to the screen, but neither the males nor the females came up again. Hurtful. Yes, and the female pretty shabby in the bank.
Despite the bright moon, the day was quite intense, almost like summer, but extremely monotonous. Until midnight, B. nubeculosa flew in the mass, and after midnight they were replaced by P. circumducta. There are a lot of red-whiskered scoops, 3-4 Orthosia species, but Conistra vaccini arrived in comparison with the last time only 1 - 2 specimens. One specimen each of Orbona fragariae and Odontosia sieversii. Birch silkwings began to fly. Well, a few characteristic for this time of year moth and some leaf wrappers.


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This post was edited by Bad Den-09.04.2013 22: 16

the process is underway ! Do you remember how discouraged you were in the winter?

  

 

I. S. Zakharzhevsky said that only once he found a nest with caterpillars on a boneyard. But most of the caterpillars were infected, and those that pupated died in the translucent stage of the wings.
 

Are you sure they died?" Just this species can winter in the pupal stage up to 8 times, and every year some of the pupae overwinter with fully formed butterflies that come out in the spring.

Does anyone have fixed lanestrisa eggs and first-age gus in alcohol? Very necessary))) I can change it to something)))

By the way, yes!
None of the pomonarii and Lanestris gatherers mentioned eggs. Moreover, there were females.

I have a female pomonaria just got out, no eggs) Fertilized, at least for sure)

This post was edited by lepidopterolog - 04/22/2011 21: 30

By the way, yes!
None of the pomonarii and Lanestris gatherers mentioned eggs. Moreover, there were females.

We first put the female in a jar and put her in the snow for the first night. Alas, she didn't plan anything, even when I sent her to the tattoo the next day.

Fishing report from 14 to 14! on your garden, DRV 250

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Wow, what butterflies you have under Vorkuta fly!

Yesterday I went with my wife and son to the village of Krekovo (15 km from Kemerovo). The weather was pleasant with the absence of rain and warmth.
I checked the soil traps once again, they are almost empty, I got a few Carabus henningi, C. regalis, one C. schoenherri. From ground beetles - all sorts of Amara, Clivina fossor, Pterostichus niger, P. oblongopunctatus. In general, nothing interesting On the grass there are a lot of all sorts of elephants, mainly Phyllobius, and literally a crowd of Lagria hirta. Several sawflies and Leptura duodecimguttata, Oxythyrea funesta, and Cetonia aurata have been caught on Umbellifera. There are not many butterflies, mostly when mowing, some kind of micra fluttered up. I would be very grateful for the definition of butterflies.

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Eastern Sayan, Mondy, June 18-27, 2011
My expedition started with a grandiose road race across half of Siberia: Omsk-Novosibirsk-Kemerovo-Krasnoyarsk-Kansk-Angarsk-Irkutsk-Mondy. The total mileage in both directions was almost 6 thousand km! My faithful horse of Japanese origin, I must pay tribute, never failed on the entire route. Although the road was not everywhere - on the Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk section, the highway has not yet been completed in some places and the road is a dirt road strewn with stones of different sizes. For the first two days of driving, the weather was sunny and hot. But on the morning of the third day, the sky was overcast and light rain drizzled. Due to the weather conditions, I saw Lake Baikal in the Kultuk area only out of the corner of my eye... Having reached Slyudyanka, I picked up our forumchanin, Anatoly Filippov (Karat), who was already waiting for me at the bus station. Together we continued along the fabulously beautiful Tunka Valley to the village of Mondy. We and our heavy expedition equipment were thrown into the mountains with the participation of GAZ-66 and two local Buryats, for which we thank them very much! We settled down at the transshipment base of the Institute of Terrestrial Physics in the house of the watchman-horse breeder. The weather was not pleasant - still drizzly and cool. However, the next morning, as if by order, we were woken up by the bright sun. Mount Kulugaisha appeared before us in all its glory. We spent the next week climbing steadily up and down the valley. Collected a lot of interesting material on butterflies (both day and night) and a few beetles. Of particular interest, we should mention the capture of such species as Acerbia alpina, Platarctia atropurpurea, Dodia kononenkoi, Oeneis tunga, Parnassius tenedius, etc. Amazing places, wonderful fauna, great company - what else does it take to consider an expedition a success?! On the way back to Krasnoyarsk, I stopped to stay for half a day with another of our forumchanin - Mikhail Ivanov (MIV). Many thanks to him for the hospitality and presented interesting butterflies! We also visited Vladimir Efremenko in his zoo - there is something to see! You can still tell a lot, but unfortunately there is no time, I will add photos.

Eastern Sayan, Mondy, June 18-27, 2011

Athaumasta caught?

  Athaumasta caught?

Yes, we've met them in the highlands!

July 5-8, 2011 Omsk region, southern forest-steppe. Biotope: the floodplain of the Irtysh River with extensive willows and ravines overgrown with sea buckthorn, near water meadows rich in various grasses.
Resaltate - 3 new species for the Omsk region at once: hawk moth Hyles hippophaeas, volnyanka Euproctis karghalica, scoop Eublemma pusilla, leafwort Agapeta zoegana (this is also the first modern and reliable find in Western Siberia). In addition, there are still a couple of not quite clear scoops, which I will deal with a little later. In addition, there were pleasant rarities: Pseudohazara hippolyte, Zygaena loti, Melitaea didyma, Ourapteryx sambucaria, Chelis maculosa, Orgyia antiqua, Photedes extrema, Hadena irregularis. And also in the mass of cocoonworms Gastropacha populifolia, hawk moth Laothoe populi in a wide variety of color variations and a lot of other interesting stuff

July 5-8, 2011 Omsk region, southern forest-steppe. Biotope: the floodplain of the Irtysh River with extensive willows and ravines overgrown with sea buckthorn, near water meadows rich in various grasses.


Resaltate - 3 new species for the Omsk region at once: hawk moth Hyles hippophaeas, volnyanka Euproctis karghalica, scoop Eublemma pusilla, leafwort Agapeta zoegana (this is also the first modern and reliable find in Western Siberia).







In addition, there are still a couple of not quite clear scoops, which I will deal with a little later. There are also some nice rarities: Pseudohazara hippolyte, Hipparchia autonoe, Zygaena loti, Melitaea didyma, Ourapteryx sambucaria, Chelis maculosa, Orgyia antiqua, Photedes extrema, Hadena irregularis. And also in the mass of cocoonworms Gastropacha populifolia, hawk moth Laothoe populi in a wide variety of color variations and a lot of other interesting stuff







This post was edited by Konung - 14.07.2011 14: 13

Report on the expedition to Gorny Altai on the shores of Lake Teletskoye as part of the scientific and educational expedition 17.07-3.08

I will remember this expedition for a long time - both the stunning beauty of the mountains, the fogs, the wild taiga I first saw, the abundance of berries-and a number of unpleasant incidents.

Our camp was located at the mouth of the Chiri River. We were squeezed between the territory of the camp site and the property of the local huntsman Volodya. It was impossible to go through these territories, and we made hiking and boat trips in the direction of the Bele cordon, up into the mountains and into the valley of the Kyga River, where the cedar taiga grew.
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Erebia flew in the forest, cicadas sang on the pines, and interesting plants grew in the clearings.


Nomion flew everywhere in large numbers, Apollo flew past the camp a couple of times, plus Phoebus was seen by his colleagues on the rocky outcrops. But attempts to find Parnassius Clarius were unsuccessful.


In traps with vinegar, carabuses went well, but the species diversity was quite low. I was surprised by the abundance of Carabus shoenherri on the very shore of the lake, according to Shilenkov, this species should be rare and live in mountain forests. I was also surprised by the fact that many carabuses crawled around the camp during the day, even in clear sunny weather, although they are supposed to lead a nocturnal lifestyle. The expected set of flower barbels and bronzes was fed on umbrella plants.


Turning over stones on the bank of the Chiri River, on a plot of several tens of meters in length, I collected 4 types of nebria. It is interesting that the disturbed beetles tried to crawl under the water on the rocks.



In addition to my direct duties as an entomology teacher, I also volunteered as a catcher for cottonmouths, which were regularly caught even in the camp itself. However, this fun did not go unnoticed for me: one of them bit me, and I had to do without a working left arm for several days, which was very swollen.


The most exciting activity of this expedition was the ascent to Lake Chiri (from which the Chiri River flows) at an altitude of 1800 m above sea level. We made this ascent in one day, during which we gained more than 1300 m (Teletskoye's height is 400 m above sea level). We were assisted on the ascent by local residents with pack horses, who were so kind that they stole only a few sleeping bags from our belongings, and even then they were already on the descent.
On the first day of the hike, while spending the night in the hut of the huntsman, I caught Blaps altaica.
Our path led through fields of wild peonies. In one of the glades where we were camping, we noticed Colias aurora, but we didn't have time to catch it, because it immediately began to rain and the butterflies hid. But about the same place was caught Leptura thoracica. Our journey was also brightened up by the abundance of raspberries and red currants, which made our mouths water by the end of the journey. However, with the climb, it was replaced by a softer taste of blueberries.


Gradually, we got out into the tundra zone, where our goal was located - Lake Chiri. Due to bad weather, we didn't really manage to fish, we can only boast of a couple of species of Grammoptera, of butterflies - Issoria eugenia and a couple of species of erebia. But the beauty of the places could not be spoiled by any weather.


I didn't really manage to catch the light at the camp, but some of it landed on the lights.


On the last day before leaving, I caught Purpuricenus, which on closer inspection turned out to be Purpuricenus globulicollis. I think this is a very interesting find, especially considering that the Purpuriscenes are a Mediterranean group that should not go so far into Asia. But this species, as you can see, still enters the Kazakh steppes.
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The time of the expedition flew by unnoticed, and now our group is leaving the hospitable Chiri River Delta.

Here is a rough list of what was seen/caught and determined in hot pursuit:

Coleoptera

Family Scarabaeidae:
Cetonia aurata viridiventris
Potosia metallica
Potosia lugubris
Trichius fasciatus
Aphodius rufipes
Serica brunnea
Geotrupes baicalica

Family Lucanidae:
Sinodendron cylindricum

Family Cerambycidae:
Chlorophorus gracilipes
Purpuricenus globulicollis
Strangalia quadrifasciata
Stenurella melanura
Stenurella bifasciata
Strangalia arcuata
Anastrangalia sequensi
Corymbia rubra
Corymbia variicornis
Lepturobosca virens
Leptura thoracica
Gnathacmaeops pratensis
Grammoptera spp. (2 sp.)
Carilia virginea
Pachyta quadrimaculata
Saperda scalaris
Mesosa myops
Leiopus sp.
Monochamus galloprovincialis
Monochamus sutor
Spondylis buprestoides
Arhopalus rusticus
Tragosoma depsarium


Family Chrysomelidae:
Chrysomela lapponica
Linaedea aenea
Chrysolina polita
Chrysolina sp.
Oreina sp.
Gonioctena pallida
Galeruca sp.
Pallasiola absinthii
Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata
Labidostomis sp.
Cryptocephalus spp. (5 sp.)
Cassida sp.

sem. Сoccinellidae:
Coccinella septempunctata
Coccinella sp.
Coccinula quatuordecimpunctata
Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata
Anatis ocellata
Calvia decemguttata
Calvia (Anisocalvia) quatuordecimguttata

Family Buprestidae:
Buprestis haemorroidalis

Family Rhynchitidae:
Rhynchites cupreus

Family Anthribidae:
Anthribus albinus

Family Staphylinideae:
Creophilus maxillosus
Staphylinus caesareus
Oxyporus maxillosus

Family Silphidae:
Silpha obscura
Silpha carinata
Oiceoptoma thoracica
Necrodes littoralis
Necrophorus vespilloides
Necrophorus spp. (2 sp)

Family Tenebrionidae:
Upis ceramboides
Blaps altaica

Family Alleculidae:
Cteniopus flavus

Family Carabidae:
Carabus (Carabus) arvensis conciliator
Carabus (Carabus) granulatus duarius
Carabus (Megodontus) schoenherri
Carabus (Diocarabus) sp.
Carabus (Morphocarabus) spp.
Broscus cephalotes
Nebria (Catonebria) banski
Nebria (Catonebria) aenea
Nebria spp. (2 sp)
Leistus sp.
Сhlaenius (Chlaeniellus) tristis
Chlaenius (Chlaeniellus) inops


Family Dytiscidae:
Platambus maculatus

Lepidoptera

Sphingidae:
Smerinthus caecus


Lasiocampidae:
Dendrolimus pini
Euthrix potatoria
Macrothylacia rubi

Papilionidae:
Parnassius nomion
Parnassius phoebus
Parnassius apollo
Papilio machaon

Nymphalidae:
Issoria eugenia
Argynnis paphia
Neptis rivularis
Inachis io
Polygonia c-album
Nymphalis vau-album
Araschnia levana


Satyridae:
Satyrus dryas
Erebia spp. (3 sp.)


Pieridae:
Leptidea spp.
Pieris brassicae
Pieris sp.
Colias hyale
Colias aurora
Gonepteryx rhamni

Lycaenidae:
Plebejus sp.
Thecla betulae

what a beauty you have there, how I want to go somewhere like this too..

Here is a rough list of what was seen/caught and determined in hot pursuit:

Sasha, I'll add some more pyadenits that I saw from your photo:

Geometra papilionaria
Abraxas sylvatа
Hypomecis roboraria
Alcis deversata
Arichanna melanaria
Ennomos autumnariа
Xanthorhoe montanata
Dysstroma citrata runcata
Pelurga comitata

what a beauty you have there, how I want to go somewhere like this too..

go again

Here is a rough list of what was seen/caught and determined in hot pursuit:

Family Cerambycidae:
Chlorophorus gracilipes
[b]Purpuricenus globulicollis
Strangalia quadrifasciata
Stenurella melanura
Stenurella bifasciata
Strangalia arcuata
Anastrangalia sequensi
Corymbia rubra
Corymbia variicornis
Lepturobosca virens
Leptura thoracica
Gnathacmaeops pratensis
Grammoptera spp. (2 sp.)
Carilia virginea
Pachyta quadrimaculata
Saperda scalaris
Mesosa myops
Leiopus sp.
Monochamus galloprovincialis
Monochamus sutor
Spondylis buprestoides
Arhopalus rusticus
Tragosoma depsarium

globulicollis yes, it goes to the Altai, but not through the steppes, but through the normal birch forest-steppe through Western Siberia. They are more likely either representatives of the genus Alosterna (and in this case - Alosterna tabacicolor erythropus = Grammoptera erythropus erythropus, = Alosterna tabacicolor bivittis), or Cortodera - which would be much more interesting!!

Andrey, information : this may come in handy. Just in case .

Report on a trip to Tuva 2009 25.05-15.06.
members: Petya Kosachev-botanist, supervisor, Ilya Sherin-graduate student, botanist, Arthur-my son, schoolboy, traveler by vocation, Vitalya-driver, and your humble servant.
The estimate is about 55 tr
. Summer started a month later that year. The fees are very poor, but interesting.
1. "Valley of the Kings" in the Abakan steppes
2. Z. Sayan, Oysky Lane, place of General Lebed's death
3. V. Tannu-Ola yevseyev
6. Arturka and Ya
7. at the top of the cretaceous massif - Khayyrakan. In the background, the scariest city in the world is Shagonar
9. Yenisei Valley in the Shagonara region
11. Kherel around the clock
12. The center of Asia-Kyzyl
That year was in Tuva as much as three times. Beautiful territory-worthy of attention

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12. Center of Asia-Kyzyl

Where is the truth?

  



Where is the truth?  

the truth is there where hereut around the clock

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we have 10 years of lemonia dumi. but it is almost impossible to catch-a strong wind. of the approximately 30 butterflies seen yesterday only 3.

I have just returned from night fishing in the immediate vicinity of Omsk. The biotope is a mixed pine-birch-aspen forest. I put the screen in the forest, because outside there was an unreal wind, and inside there was almost absolute calm, +18. I turned on the lamp around 20.00. It flew surprisingly well for October! The main flight ended at 21.00. I waited another hour and went home.
Species list:
Poecilocampa populi
Catocala fraxini for light and bait
Helicoverpa armigera
Agrochola circellaris
Conistra vaccinii
Macdunnoughia confusa
Caradrina albina
Amphipyra perflua
Anarta trifolii
Autographa gamma
Xylena vetusta (freshest) for bait
a pair of Depressariidae species
one Gelechiidae
from Pterophoridae only Emmelina monodactyla
plus a lot of different insects: bedbugs, beetles, horsemen, mosquitoes-weevils, sirfids, cicadas, goldeneyes...
In general, I was satisfied.

I have just returned from night fishing in the immediate vicinity of Omsk.

It's funny, it seems that Kazan is located several thousand kilometers from Omsk, and the composition of the caught butterflies is the same: poplar cocoonworms, blue ribbon moth, long-winged scoop and numerous small scoops like gamma. Only our temperature is currently lower than+7-8 degrees.

This post was edited by niyaz - 03.10.2011 22: 59

Palearctic-mat

It is clear that Palarctica. The Far East, for example, is also Palearctic. However, if it was all so simple, then here would not sit and do not identify the easternmost point of occurrence of plumigera.

We also closed the season on October 17 in the west of the Omsk region. Years from 19.30 to 22.00 are very scarce. It arrived: Conistra vaccinii, Eupsillia transversa, Acleris logiana, Loxostege sticticalis!!!, Emmelina monodactyla, Caloptilia sp. That's it.

Here are some photos of butterfly hunting for the whole season!!!))))

To be continued....








This post was edited by Entomologist - 03.12.2011 17: 23

On January 2, I went to the village. There, at a temperature of -20 degrees in the snow, I found this insect.





Maybe someone knows.