E-mail: Password: Create an Account Recover password

Exhibition About Authors Contacts Get involved Русская версия

show

Catocala elocata (Esper, 1787)

Имаго (Catocala elocata)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Erebinae → tribe Catocalini → subtribe Catocalina → genus Catocala → species Catocala elocata

Species name(s)

Catocala elocata (Esper, 1787) = Noctua elocata Esper, 1787 = Noctua marita Hübner, [1813] = Noctua nurus Hübner, [1822]. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6765

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Red, Orange, Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

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

Имаго (Catocala elocata)

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic Islands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia . [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
  • Its range is Southern Europe, partly Middle Europe, and in addition, the middle zone of Russia, western Siberia, the Caucasus, and almost all of Asia. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Characteristic features on the forewings are yellow-gray color, thick brown pollination, indistinct pattern with light transverse lines and dark caioma, jagged outer transverse line, blurred kidney-shaped spot, located at the base of each of the forewings a light spot. Characteristic features on the hindwings are the color cinnabar (cinnabar is a mercury material of bright red color), a straight black median band and a black outer edge. Wing fringe white and wavy [85].

Imago lifespan

  • Summer time is from July to September. [85].

General info about Larva

  • The caterpillar of the poplar tapeworm is grey, with dark dots and dark longitudinal lines, with the middle lateral line containing yellow dots/warts. The lower part of the caterpillar's body is also warty, but not ash-gray, but meat-colored. On the eighth ring of the body — red-gray swelling. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Salix, Populus. [28].
  • Тополь, ива. [85].

Larva lifespan

  • It lives from May to June. [85].

Pupa

  • The pupa is red-brown with a blue coating. [85].

Subspecies of Catocala elocata

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Glebov, Sergey Demyanenko.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

Comments

Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments

Insecta.pro: Illustrated insecta catalogue. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor and administrator: Peter Khramov.

I express my gratitude to moderators, photographers and involved users for their contribution to the website progress.

© Insecta.pro, 2007—2025.

Species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion, flight time, etc..

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Enotomologists search system and a living blog.