Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Hyphantria → species Hyphantria cunea

Species name(s)

Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) = Phalaena cunea Drury, 1773 = Phalaena liturata Goeze, 1781 = Phalaena punctatissima Smith, 1797 = Cycnia budea Hübner, 1823 = Spilosoma mutans Walker, 1856 = Hyphantria collaris Fitch, 1857 = Hyphantria punctata Fitch, 1857 = Hyphantria pallida Packard, 1864 = Spilosoma candida Walker, [1865] = Hyphantria suffusa Strecker, 1900 = Hyphantria brunnea Strecker, 1900 = Hyphantria textor Harris = Hyphantria textor Harris, 1841. [9, 10, 186]

Fall Webworm.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Nearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #40. Primorsky*.

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

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Pupa.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

It comes from the United States and southern Canada. During the Second World War (in 1940) it was introduced to Europe, first in Hungary and then Czechoslovakia and Austria. View and gradually spread to other countries in central and southern Europe. [61].
Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Italy (mainland), Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part) Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad (?), Lower Volga, Seaside (?) Mid-Volzhsky. [3].
It brought to Europe from America. Now it settles in the south of the European part of Russia. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Externally, much like theSpilosoma lubricipeda- speckled bear, but differs from it in smaller sizes. [5].

Imago lifespan

Adult insects fly in two generations. The first generation flies in April and May and the second in July and August.
In the north area butterflies fly in May-June in one generation. [61].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Caterpillars feed on fruit trees, mulberry prefers. It is found on maple, white poplar, willow, acacia, etc. [61].
Prunus, Malus, Pyrus, Alnus, Populus, and other trees and shrubs. [28].

Pupa

Red-brown pupa length 12-15mm. is the last segment of the 12 typical for the species, chitinized outgrowths. [61].

Egg

Round, yellow-green eggs are flat, single layer groups. [61].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Diego Reggianti, Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[61] Новак В., Грозинка Ф., Стары Б. Атлас насекомых-вредителей лесных пород. Прага: Государственное сельскохозяйственное издательство, 1974
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov