Lycia zonaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Bistonini → genus Lycia → species Lycia zonaria

Species name(s)

Lycia zonaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775).

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky*; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Forewing length

14—15 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

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

Pupa.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden. [1].
Austria, Belgium, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland Sweden. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasian (?), The European Central Black Earth, Central European, Trans-Baikal, West Caucasian (?) Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
The area of Lycia zonaria - warm Europe, east to Central Asia, avoiding high altitudes. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - in the region of 1.5 cm. The male is dark brown, sometimes until dark almost black, on dark background front and rear wings is a pair of white transverse bands, veins on the wings are black, very prominent.The female is very short, vestigial wings, with a thick body and short, but long legs on which it is nice to know how to run. [5].

General info about Imago

Striped Moth-moth flies in the meadows, roadsides, fields and heath, as well as on the sandy slopes. [5].

Imago lifespan

Flight of time: the end of March - the end of May. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Vaccinium, Ledum, Centaurea. [28].
It feeds on the sage and cornflower, sage, heather and yarrow. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars live from May to early July. [5].

Overwintering stage

Pupa. [5].

Subspecies of Lycia zonaria

Lycia zonaria britannica (Harrison, 1912). [10]
L. z. rossica (Harrison, 1912). [10]
L. z. zonaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexander Belousov.

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
[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