Calamia tridens (Hufnagel, 1766)

Имаго Calamia tridens

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Apameini → subtribe Apameina → genus Calamia → species Calamia tridens

Species name(s)

Calamia tridens (Hufnagel, 1766) = Phalaena tridens Hufnagel, 1766 = Phaleaena (Noctua) virens Linnaeus, 1767 = Calamia virens occidentalis Cockayne, 1954 = Calamia immaculata. [9, 10]

Burren Green.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

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; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

Forewing length

16—20 mm.

Primary colors

Green, White.

Flight time

January

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Имаго Calamia tridens

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland)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, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky,South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Range: temperate Europe up to 1800 m altitude. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The length of the front wing is 1.6-2 cm. Greenish or yellowish-greenish color of the scoop with a very small kidney-shaped spot. The hindwings are dirty-whitish. [85].

General info about Imago

Places of summer: wastelands, roadsides, and the outskirts of fields. [85].

Imago lifespan

The adult lives from July to September. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Овсяница (Festuca), коротконожка (Brachypodium), мятлик (Poa annua) и другие злаки. [85].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillar — from May to June. [85].

Overwintering stage

The egg overwinters on the soil. [85].

Subspecies of Calamia tridens

Calamia tridens occidentalis Cockayne, 1954. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Evgenie Bezgrebelnyj.

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)
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org