Yponomeuta evonymella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Yponomeuta evonymellus. [5].

Distribution

• Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, of Baikal , Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin,Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
• Almost all of Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Length of front wing is in the range of 1-1.3 cm, its color is silvery-white, with five longitudinal rows of black dots. Hind wings brown, with dark borders, they are shorter and wider than the front. Threadlike antennae length about 2/3 of the wing. At rest, the wings of the moth are rolled and pressed to the body. [5].

General info about Imago

• Moths fly in the floodplain forests along streams, in gardens and parks. Disturbed ermine moth bounce away and fall to the ground. [5].

Imago lifespan

• Early July - mid-August. [5].

General info about Larva

• Newly hatched gusenichka inactive, they have no extra concerns for winter bud scales. The larvae begin to feed in the spring, when they begin to blossom buds and young shoots appear. Young caterpillars are kept in groups, criss-crossing web of escape, and thus obtaining a common nest.If there are nests in the tree will be a lot, by the middle of May, the entire plant can be overgrown by silvery buildings ermine moths larvae, the web can envelop not only the branch, but the trunk to the ground. Track Yponomeuta evonymella inedible because of the substances that they learn when feeding on bird cherry.Pupation takes place in a dense cocoon, which is in general a nest located on a tree trunk or, much more rarely, in the grass. The first pupate most powerful and large caterpillars, later they are joined by those smaller in the end in a nest can collect up to hundreds of tracks, and the last, very small is not the place.Such nedokormyshi die, but not in vain - to the death, they envelop the entire web of neighbors that can identify, thereby contributing to their survival. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Typically, wild cherry Prunus padus. Very rarely - cherry and buckthorn. Moth eats only spring shoots. Actually, it may not consume the any other, because caterpillars are active only in the spring, the second generation of summer does not happen.As a result, often new, neobedaemye on bird cherry leaves can appear only after pupation and the emergence of adults of bird cherry ermine moths, ie late enough to be uninteresting for most other insects.And, although with a strong breeding butterflies tree may lose flowers, each year this horror is not repeated, because in the case of spring frosts killed most of gusenichek, providing a break for breeding bird cherry. [5].

Larva lifespan

• After wintering live until the end of May - beginning of June. [5].

Egg

• Eggs are laid on the wintering buds cherry. [5].

Overwintering stage

• Young caterpillars overwinter on buds. [5].

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Yponomeuta albonigratus Gershenzon, 1972

Yponomeuta alienella Walker, 1863

Yponomeuta anatolica Stringer, 1930

Yponomeuta anatolicus Stringer, 1930

Yponomeuta antistatica Meyrick, 1931

Yponomeuta athyris Meyrick, 1928

Yponomeuta atomosella Dyar, 1902

Yponomeuta bolidias Meyrick, 1913

Yponomeuta brunnescens Moore, 1888

Yponomeuta cagnagella (Hubner, 1813)

Yponomeuta calcarata Meyrick, 1924

Yponomeuta calculosa Meyrick

Yponomeuta catharotis Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta chalcocoma Meyrick, 1938

Yponomeuta cinefacta Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta cinefactus Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta conisca Meyrick, 1914

Yponomeuta corpuscularis Meyrick, 1907

Yponomeuta cuprea Meyrick, 1901

Yponomeuta diffluellus Heinemann, 1870

Yponomeuta disemanta Meyrick, 1933

Yponomeuta effeta Meyrick, 1924

Yponomeuta elementaris Meyrick, 1931

Yponomeuta enneacentra Meyrick, 1925

Yponomeuta eurinellus Zagulajev, 1969

Yponomeuta eusoma Meyrick, 1914

Yponomeuta falkovitshi Gershenson, 1998

Yponomeuta favillacea Meyrick, 1922

Yponomeuta fumigata Zeller, 1852

Yponomeuta funesta Meyrick, 1914

Yponomeuta gershensoni Sinev, 2007

Yponomeuta gigas (Rebel, 1892)

Yponomeuta glaphyropis Meyrick, 1908

Yponomeuta griseatus Moriuti, 1977

Yponomeuta griseomaculatus Gershenson, 1969

Yponomeuta hemileuca Meyrick, 1932

Yponomeuta hexabola Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta horologa Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta hypsicrates Meyrick, 1925

Yponomeuta internella Walker, 1863

Yponomeuta internellus (Walker, 1863)

Yponomeuta interruptella Sauber, 1902

Yponomeuta irrorella (Hubner, 1796)

Yponomeuta kanaiella Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta kanaiellus Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta kostjuki Gershenson, 1985

Yponomeuta leucothorax Meyrick, 1913

Yponomeuta leucotoma Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta liberalis (Meyrick, 1913)

Yponomeuta mahalebella (Guenee, 1845)

Yponomeuta malinellus (Zeller, 1838)

Yponomeuta martinella Walker, 1863

Yponomeuta mayumivorella Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta meguronis Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta melanaster Meyrick, 1907

Yponomeuta meracula Bradley, 1962

Yponomeuta meridionalis Gershenzon, 1972

Yponomeuta millepunctatella Warren, 1888

Yponomeuta minuella Walker, 1863

Yponomeuta mochlocrossa Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta morbillosa Zeller, 1877

Yponomeuta multipunctella Clemens, 1860

Yponomeuta munda Meyrick, 1921

Yponomeuta myriosema (Turner, 1898)

Yponomeuta nigricola Meyrick, 1912

Yponomeuta nigrifimbriatus Christoph, 1882

Yponomeuta octocentra Meyrick, 1921

Yponomeuta ocypora Meyrick, 1932

Yponomeuta orbimaculella Chambers, 1872

Yponomeuta orientalis Zagulajev, 1969

Yponomeuta padella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Yponomeuta paradoxus Gershenzon, 1979

Yponomeuta pauciflore Efremov, 1969

Yponomeuta paurodes Meyrick, 1907

Yponomeuta plumbella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Yponomeuta polystictus Butler, 1879

Yponomeuta polystigmellus C.Felder & R.Felder, 1862

Yponomeuta praetincta Meyrick

Yponomeuta puncticornis Walsingham, 1891

Yponomeuta pustulellus (Walker, 1863)

Yponomeuta refrigerata Meyrick, 1931

Yponomeuta refrigeratus Meyrick, 1931

Yponomeuta rhamnellus Gershenzon, 1974

Yponomeuta rorrella (Hubner, 1796)

Yponomeuta sedella (Treitschke, 1832)

Yponomeuta semialba Meyrick, 1913

Yponomeuta sistrophora Meyrick, 1909

Yponomeuta sociatus Moriuti, 1972

Yponomeuta spodocrossa Meyrick, 1935

Yponomeuta stenodoxa Meyrick, 1931

Yponomeuta strigillata Zeller, 1852

Yponomeuta subplumbella Walsingham, 1881

Yponomeuta tokyonella Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta triangularis Möschler, 1890

Yponomeuta vigintipunctata Retzius, 1783

Yponomeuta vigintipunctatus (Retzius, 1783)

Yponomeuta yanagawana Matsumura, 1931

Yponomeuta zagulajevi Gershenzon, 1977