Diloba caeruleocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Dilobinae → genus Diloba → species Diloba caeruleocephala
Species name(s)
Diloba caeruleocephala (Linnaeus, 1758).
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 3.
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.
Forewing length
15—20 mm.
Primary colors
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 |
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part 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), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)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, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky. [3].
- Areal - Europe at altitudes up to 1000 m. [5].
Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species
- Length of front wing 1.5-2 cm, very red-wing or gray-brown, close to the center with a grayish-whitish spots, edged even lighter obodochkami. The tops of bright hind wings dark spot. [5].
General info about Imago
- Places volley - edge of the forest, gardens, slopes. [5].
Imago lifespan
- From mid-September to late November. [5].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Prunus, Crataegus, Sorbus, Malus. [28].
- Turn, cherries and fruit trees. [5].
Larva lifespan
- Track Diloba caeruleocephala live from May to June. [5].
Subspecies of Diloba caeruleocephala
- Diloba caeruleocephala armena Staudinger, 1871. [9]
- D. c. caeruleocephala. [9]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Andrey Ponomarev. 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
- [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
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