Sparganothis pilleriana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Tortricoidea → family Tortricidae → subfamily Tortricinae → tribe Sparganothini → genus Sparganothis → species Sparganothis pilleriana

Species name(s)

Sparganothis pilleriana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = vitis (Dantic, 1786) = pillerana (Fabricius, 1794) = vitana (Fabricius, 1794) = luteolana (Hübner, 1822) = danticana (Walcken, 1836) = obscurana (Preissecker, 1936) = Pyralis danticana Walckenaer, 1836 = Tortrix luteolana Hübner, 1796/99 = Oenophthira obscurana Preissecker, 1935 = Sparganothis uniformata Dufrane 1960. [9, 10, 187]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Wingspan

17—22 mm.

Flight time

January

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November

December

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia,Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, Central European, Trans-Baikal, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium Volzhsky, South Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The front wings are yellow or greenish, with two rusty-brown bands. Hind wings gray. The wingspan of about 20 mm. [11].
Wingspan: 17-22 mm. [PC93].

Imago lifespan

From July to August. [11].
July August [PC93].

General info about Larva

Caterpillar dirty-green, with a brown tint. It carries three longitudinal dark stripes and small white dots. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Hawthorn (Crataegus), Apple (Malus), pear (Pyrus), Cherry (Cerasus), Plum (Prunus), hops (Humulus), Alfalfa (Medicago), Strawberry (Fragaria) [PC93].
Leaves and flowers of grapes. [11].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [11].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov