E-mail: Password: Create an Account Recover password

About Authors Contacts Get involved Русская версия

show

Catocala sponsa (Linnaeus, 1767)

Имаго (Catocala sponsa)

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 sponsa

Species name(s)

Catocala sponsa (Linnaeus, 1767) = Astiodes sponsa = Phalaena sponsa Linnaeus, 1767 = Noctua rejecta Fischer de Waldheim, 1820. [9, 10, 85]

Dark Crimson Underwing.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:6782

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

30—35 mm.

Wingspan

60—80 mm.

Primary colors

Red, 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

Over-wintering stage

Ova.

Имаго (Catocala sponsa)

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

  • Astiodes sponsa. [85].

Distribution

  • Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Austria, 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), Poland, Portugal (mainland)Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, 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, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South Ural. [3].
  • Range: almost all of Europe (with reference to the places of oak growth). In Russia — the central and southern parts of it. Caucasus. Asia Minor. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Forewing length from 3 to 3.5 cm (wingspan 60-80 mm). The hindwings are purplish in color, and "the band on them is acute-angled, their edge is serrated, and the fringe is unicolored." Or " fringe... spotted and wavy." The forewings are grey-brown, with a greenish tinge. A reniform spot with a double border, itself located between two clear lines, on a light field (under the reniform is another, white, spot).Catocala sponsa is similar in appearance to Catocala dilecta, but slightly smaller in size. For some reason, the most beautiful shape is considered to be f. desponsa — with yellow rear wings. [85].

General info about Imago

  • The purple ribbon beetle loves oak forests, is also found in deciduous-mixed forests, and sometimes even flies to old gardens and parks — if there are old oaks there. The butterfly is active at dusk and at night, when catching in the light it is tolerant of human attention (it is not afraid to the point that it can easily be picked up). [85].

Imago lifespan

  • It flies from mid-July to mid-September. [85].

General info about Larva

  • The caterpillar is a brown-gray shade, the color of the bark, all in dark dots, and sometimes also in longitudinal lines. The yellowish transverse swelling on the eighth ring of C. sponsa is significantly (!) elevated. In addition, there is also an elevation on the eleventh ring. The caterpillar's head is grey, with a black transverse stripe.The larva of the crimson order ribbon lives, [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Quercus. [28].
  • Oak (Quercus), chestnut (Castanea), horse chestnut (Aesculus) [PC93].
  • Исключительно дуб. [85].

Larva lifespan

  • In May and June — in May, the first oak shoots bloom, then small caterpillars of C. sponsa hatch. [85].

Pupa

  • The pupa is brown, with a blue coating. Slim. Pupation takes place "on the ground, where a gray cocoon is woven." [85].

Egg

  • The egg overwinters. [85].

Subspecies of Catocala sponsa

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Igor Sakhno.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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

02.02.2014 17:13, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Over-wintering stage: No formalized data → Ova.

Insecta.pro: international entomological community. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor in chief and administrator: Peter Khramov.

Curators: Konstantin Efetov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Evgeny Komarov, Stan Korb, Alexander Zhakov.

Moderators: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Evgeny Komarov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Alexandr Zhakov.

Thanks to all authors, who publish materials on the website.

© Insects catalog Insecta.pro, 2007—2024.

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

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Few themed publications and a living blog.