Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Allophyes oxyacanthae)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Amphipyrinae → tribe Psaphidini → subtribe Psaphidina → genus Allophyes → species Allophyes oxyacanthae

Species name(s)

Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena (Noctua) oxyacanthae Linnaeus, 1758 = Meganephria oxyacanthae fulva Rothschild, 1914. [9, 10]

Green-brindled Crescent.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

18—21 mm.

Primary colors

Green, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

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Имаго (Allophyes oxyacanthae)

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia,Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
Range-temperate Europe, in the mountains reaches up to 1600 m. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The forewing is 1.8 to 2.1 cm long, dark brown or gray, sometimes slightly greenish, with a white crescent-shaped spot on the hindwing margin. [85].

General info about Imago

It is found in deciduous-mixed forests and in water meadows with heather beds. [85].

Imago lifespan

The butterfly flies from late September to late October. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Prunus, Crataegus. [28].
Боярышник, терн, реже плодовые деревья. [85].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars of Allophyes oxyacanthae live from April to June. [85].

Overwintering stage

The egg overwinters. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Natalia Demchenko.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015