Pyrrhia umbra (Hufnagel, 1766)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Heliothinae → genus Pyrrhia → species Pyrrhia umbra

Species name(s)

Pyrrhia umbra (Hufnagel, 1766) = rutilago (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) = marginata (Fabricius, 1775) = conspicua (Borkhausen, 1792) = Phalaena (Noctua) umbrago Esper, 1798 = marginago (Haworth, 1809) = tibetana (Moore, 1878) = vexilliger (Christoph, 1893) = Pyrrhia aconiti Höltzermann, 1902. [9, 10]

Bordered Sallow.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 10.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #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; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, 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, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia , Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, 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, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga,Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
Range: temperate Europe, at altitudes up to 1600 m. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The length of the forewing of the butterfly reaches 1.8 cm, they are yellowish, reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, the transverse stripes on them are red-brown. [85].

General info about Imago

Pyrrhia umbra flies through clearings in forests and beyond, on the edges of meadows and roads, in gardens, parks and on warm slopes. [85].

Imago lifespan

From mid-May to the end of July. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ononis repens, O. spinosa, Genista, Linaria, Antirrhinum, Vicia. [28].
Стальник, с меньшей охотой принимают герань, а также побеги лещины с ольхой. [85].

Larva lifespan

July to August. [85].

Overwintering stage

The pupa overwinters. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Nikolai Vladimirov, Irina Nikulina.

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