Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759)

Самец (Diaphora mendica)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Diaphora → species Diaphora mendica

Species name(s)

Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759) = Phalaena mendica Clerck, 1759 = Bombyx lubricipeda Poda, 1761 = Diacrisia inversa Caradja, 1898 = Diacrisia binaghii Turati, 1910 = sabulosa Derenne, 1929 = circumpunctata Cockayne, 1949 = lineata Cockayne, 1951 = Diacrisia mendica. [9, 10]

Muslin Moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky*; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy,North Urals, the Volga-Average, Average Urals (?) Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Its range is temperate Europe. In Central Europe, it is disjunctive. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Males are smaller than females, gray-brown, females are larger and white, both sexes have black spots on the wings, and males also have comb-like antennae. [85].

General info about Imago

Beggars fly in dry sandy areas, for example in pine forests. [85].

Imago lifespan

Meeting time: mid-May-early July. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Salix, Urtica, Rumex, Chenopodium, Atriplex, Trifolium, Lythrum, Chamaenerion, Impatiens noli-tangere, Stachys, Lamium, Galeopsis, Plantago. [28].
Щавель, яснотка, кульбаба. [85].

Larva lifespan

Diaphora mendica caterpillars live from July to August. [85].

Pupa

Pupa: in a gray spider cocoon on the ground; overwinters. [85].

Egg

A doll. [85].

Subspecies of Diaphora mendica

Diarsia mendica borealis (Zetterstedt, 1839). [10]
D. m. mendica (Fabricius, 1775). [10]
D. m. mendica. [9]
D. m. orkneyensis (Bytinski-Salz, 1939). [10]
D. m. syra Daniel, 1933. [9]
D. m. thulei (Staudinger, 1891). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Vitaly Gumenuk.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015