Eupoecilia ambiguella (Hubner, 1796)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Conchylis ambiguella [11].

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France , Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland,France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South -Kurilsky, South Ural. [3].
• The range - from the warm Europe to the Far East; North Africa. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Length of front wing - about 0.7 cm in the middle of the front wings lie on the dark-brown band. On the edges - black dots. Hind wings more boring darkish. [5].
• The front wings are brilliant, straw yellow, with a broad dark brown sash in the middle. Hind wings brownish-gray (whitish in males). The wingspan of 14 to 16 mm. [11].

General info about Imago

• It flies through the vineyards, which may be some danger. [5].

Imago lifespan

• Two generations - the first in May and the second from July to August. [5].

General info about Larva

• Track entangle the web of the kidneys and devour them. The first generation larvae pupate in late June or early July, and two weeks later will be the second generation of butterflies. The second generation of caterpillars eats into berries.
  Young larvae are light gray with a reddish stripe along the back.Adult caterpillars red meat, in a very small red warts. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Meals for grape leaf roller caterpillars is grapes. And yet - some of herbaceous plants. Larvae of the first generation of the spring, feeding on the kidneys, and the caterpillars of the second generation (summer) - to the immature berries in spider tubes. [5].
• Grapes, lilac, currant, ivy, euonymus, buckthorn, privet. [11].

Larva lifespan

• Track Eupoecilia ambiguella live in April-May and August-September. [5].

Egg

• The second generation of butterflies lay eggs on host plants berries. [11].

Overwintering stage

• Pupa. [11].

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