Yponomeuta cagnagella (Hubner, 1813)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Yponomeutoidea → family Yponomeutidae → subfamily Yponomeutinae → genus Yponomeuta → species Yponomeuta cagnagella

Species name(s)

Yponomeuta cagnagella (Hubner, 1813) = Yponomeuta cagnagellus (Hübner, 1813) = Tinea cagnagella Hübner, [1813] = Phalaena evonymella Scopoli, 1763 = Nygmia cognatella Hübner, [1825] = Yponomeuta cognatella Treitschke, 1832 = Hyponomeuta evonymi Zeller, 1844 = Yponomeuta cognatellus. [5, 9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

12—13 mm.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Yponomeuta cognatellus [5].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania,Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].
Moderate to cool Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length 1.2-1.3 cm, it is silvery white with three rows of black dots. Hind wings dark, with white fringe. Hallmark - "a stocky body." Butterfly considerably larger similar species -Yponomeuta malinellus. [5].

General info about Imago

The butterfly is found on the edges of the forest, near streams and hedgerows. [5].

Imago lifespan

From late June to late July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Euonymus (Evonymus europaeus), zhoster (Rhamnus frangula), other shrubs, scrub oak. [5].

Larva lifespan

From July to the end of May - beginning of June. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Irina Nikulina.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)