Angerona prunaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Angeronini → genus Angerona → species Angerona prunaria

Species name(s)

Angerona prunaria (Linnaeus, 1758).

Orange Moth.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 8.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

16—23 mm.

Wingspan

35—50 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Yellow, 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 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania,Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Western Yakutia, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal,Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
The area - a fair Europe, in the south only in the mountains. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing may be 1.6, and maybe all of 2.3 cm. Samchyky red-orange, samochki light yellow, larger than Samchyky. And those in other dark spots on the fringe. [5].
Wingspan: 35-50 mm. [PC93].

General info about Imago

Habitats - parks and gardens, sparse forests. [5].

Imago lifespan

From late May to early August fly imago Angerona prunaria [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Alnus, Salix, Ribes, Rosa, Rubus, Prunus, Crataegus, Calluna, Vaccinium, Ledum, Plantago, Sambucus, Lonicera, Taraxacum. [28].
Blueberries, raspberries and sarotamnus. [5].

Larva lifespan

From August to May live tracks. [5].

Subspecies of Angerona prunaria

Angerona prunaria aquafortis Bryk, 1948. [187]
A. p. coreola Wehrli, 1940. [187]
A. p. dominans Bryk, 1942. [187]
A. p. kentearia Staudinger, 1892. [9]
A. p. mongoligena Bryk, 1948. [187]
A. p. prouterona Bryk, 1948. [187]
A. p. prunaria. [9]
A. p. turbata Prout, 1929. [9]
A. p. valens Wehrli, 1940. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Natalia Demchenko.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov, 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
[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
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov