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Callimorpha dominula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго  (Callimorpha dominula)

Taxonomy

class Insecta subclass Pterygota infraclass Neoptera superorder Holometabola order Lepidoptera superfamily Noctuoidea family Erebidae subfamily Arctiinae tribe Arctiini subtribe Callimorphina genus Callimorpha → species Callimorpha dominula

Species name(s)

Callimorpha dominula (Linnaeus, 1758) = Panaxia dominula = Phalaena dominula Linnaeus, 1758 = domina Hübner, 1803 = insubrica Wackerzapp, 1890 = lusitanica Staudinger, 1894 = rhodanica Kettlewell, 1943. [9, 10, 85]

Scarlet Tiger.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6684

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

24—27 mm.

Primary colors

Red, Yellow, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

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

Имаго  (Callimorpha dominula)

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

  • Panaxia dominula. [85].

Distribution

  • Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, 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), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, 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, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
  • Habitat type: Europe to central Sweden in the north and south of Finland - it is not the north. Disjunctive. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Length of front wing - up to 2.7 cm, color - dark brown, with large white and yellow spots. The top of the rear wings red, rarely - yellow, but always with black spots, the size and location of which can vary. Unlike many other bears Madame has developed mouthparts for gathering nectar.Besides frequent girl with red wings and a yellow form found f. flava (different color of the rear wings). [5].

General info about Imago

  • It prefers moist habitats - from streams, rain forests with glades where proizrostaet raspberries with nettles. [5].

Imago lifespan

  • Flight of time: mid-June - July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Urtica, Cynoglossum, Fragaria, Fraxinus, Geranium, Lamium, Lonicera, Myosotis, Populus, Prunus, Ranunculus, Rubus, Salix, Ulmus. [28].
  • Quite a lot of different food plants - raspberry and honeysuckle, nettles with forget-me-or, for example, dead-nettle (Lamium). [5].

Larva lifespan

  • April - the end of May. [5].

Subspecies of Callimorpha dominula

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Lutikov, Grigoriy Grigoriev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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