Callimorpha dominula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Panaxia dominula. [85].

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, 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, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
• Habitat type: Europe to central Sweden in the north and south of Finland - it is not the north. Disjunctive. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Length of front wing - up to 2.7 cm, color - dark brown, with large white and yellow spots. The top of the rear wings red, rarely - yellow, but always with black spots, the size and location of which can vary. Unlike many other bears Madame has developed mouthparts for gathering nectar.Besides frequent girl with red wings and a yellow form found f. flava (different color of the rear wings). [5].

General info about Imago

• It prefers moist habitats - from streams, rain forests with glades where proizrostaet raspberries with nettles. [5].

Imago lifespan

• Flight of time: mid-June - July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Urtica, Cynoglossum, Fragaria, Fraxinus, Geranium, Lamium, Lonicera, Myosotis, Populus, Prunus, Ranunculus, Rubus, Salix, Ulmus. [28].
• Quite a lot of different food plants - raspberry and honeysuckle, nettles with forget-me-or, for example, dead-nettle (Lamium). [5].

Larva lifespan

• April - the end of May. [5].

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