Campaea margaritaria (Linnaeus, 1761)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Campaeini → genus Campaea → species Campaea margaritaria

Species name(s)

Campaea margaritaria (Linnaeus, 1761) = Campaea margaritata Linnaeus, 1767 = margaritaria (Denis & Shiffermüller, 1775). [9, 10, 85]

Light Emerald.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:5150

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Forewing length

15—20 mm.

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 			

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Campaea margaritata. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, 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, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad. [3].
Areal - deciduous forests of Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing is 1.5 and even 2 cm. Wings broad, light green, the collection quickly fade, reaching white. On the front wings two transverse light streaks, outer of which continues in the rear. [5].

General info about Imago

Pearl Moth flies through the leafy beech and mixed forests, parks and gardens. [5].

Imago lifespan

Two generations from June to September. [5].

General info about Larva

Track Campaea margaritata cross-bluish and greenish-brown stripes. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Salix, Corylus, Fagus, Prunus, Quercus. [28].
Beech. [5].

Larva lifespan

C August June and in July. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrej Makara, Paolo Mazzei.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015