Lomaspilis marginata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Lomaspilis marginata)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Geometroidea → family Geometridae → subfamily Ennominae → tribe Cassymini → genus Lomaspilis → species Lomaspilis marginata

Species name(s)

Lomaspilis marginata (Linnaeus, 1758).

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 7.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #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; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #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; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

10—12 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

January

February

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December

Over-wintering stage

Pupa.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland)Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Sicily ?, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur,Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North Urals, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Distribution: deciduous forests of Europe and Asia. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - from 1 to 1.2 cm. Wings white on the edges and on the border of the dark spots, in addition, there is a dark spot in the middle of the front wings. There are many forms that differ in the size of dark spots. [5].

General info about Imago

Fringed Moth found in the water meadows, forest edges, roadsides and fields, swamps and wild gardens and parks. Fly day and night. [5].

Imago lifespan

It gives two generations from April to August. In the case of unfavorable conditions for the life of the second generation may be incomplete or even absent, while butterflies fly from May to early August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Salix, Betula, Populus, Corylus avellana. [28].
Caterpillars feed on Lomaspilis marginata goat willow (Salix caprea), aspen (Populus tremula), hazel (Corylus) and birch (Betula). [5].

Larva lifespan

The larvae occur from August to September, and from June to July. [5].

Overwintering stage

Pupa. [5].

Subspecies of Lomaspilis marginata

Lomaspilis marginata amurensis (Hedemann, 1881). [9]
L. m. marginata. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Irina Nikulina.

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
[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

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30.06.2023 10:09, Alexander Kuzmin

Information from the 2016 catalog:
The taxa L. marginata and L. opis differ in stable features both in the structure of the genitals of both sexes and in the characteristics of the wing pattern. There is no morphological "transition" between them in Sib. Lomaspilis opis Butler, 1878, stat. resurr., bona sp., is an independent species distributed in Asia. At the subspecific level, we maintain the synonymy of opis and amurensis, since the South Prussian butterflies of this species, according to the degree of development of the dark elements of the wing pattern, occupy a transitional position between the usually lighter Amur (from where the taxon A. M. amurensis was described), and the more intensely colored ones from Korea and Japan (Honshu). Populations of L. opis from Hokkaido Island, Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula, whose butterflies have strongly reduced dark elements of the wing pattern, are mistakenly interpreted by Japanese authors as Lomaspilis marginata amurensis and need to be studied to establish the status.