Alsophila aescularia (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Alsophilinae → genus Alsophila → species Alsophila aescularia

Species name(s)

Alsophila aescularia (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Geometra aescularia Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena hirtaria Fabricius, 1776 = Phalaena hirsutaria Fabricius, 1781 = Geometra apteraria Haworth, 1809 = Phalaena (Geometra) murinaria = Phalaena (Geometra) liustriaria. [9, 10]

March Moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

13—16 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

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Larva lifespan

January

February

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, 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, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
Moderate Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing from 1.3 to 1.6 cm color from gray to brown, cross-toothed strips, rear wings at all without a pattern. Females are wingless, dark, almost black, with long legs: bad run. [5].

General info about Imago

Butterflies are found mixed-deciduous forests. [5].

Imago lifespan

Fly Elm Moth begins in February and continues until early May. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, Betula, Prunus, Fagus, Ulmus, Salix. [28].
Fruit and deciduous trees. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars are found from April to July [5].

Overwintering stage

Winters doll. [5].

Subspecies of Alsophila aescularia

Alsophila aescularia urzhumaria Krulikovski, 1909. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Marija Jaunkunga.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org