Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Actinotiini → genus Actinotia → species Actinotia polyodon

Species name(s)

Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759) = Phalaena polyodon Clerck, 1759 = Phalaena perspicillaris Linnaeus, 1761. [9, 10]

Purple Cloud, Purple Cloud.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7222

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

13—15 mm.

Wingspan

31—36 mm.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Russia,Romania, 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, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Nizhne-Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky,Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South Kuril, South Ural. [3].
Range: Central Europe, up to 1500 m in height. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Forewing length is from 1.3 to 1.5 cm, color-between brown and purple-brown. There is no round spot, the reniform spot is strongly lightened. A characteristic feature is a drawing on the front fenders in the form of the letter W. [85].

General info about Imago

Butterflies can fly wherever there is St. John's wort — on warm slopes, in deciduous-mixed forests and other abandoned fields. [85].

Imago lifespan

From mid-May to mid-June. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Hypericum. [28].
Зверобой (Hypericum perforatum) и астрагал. [85].

Larva lifespan

Actinotia polyodon caterpillars live from July to August. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Marija Jaunkunga, Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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