Mormo maura (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Mormo maura)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Dypterygiini → genus Mormo → species Mormo maura

Species name(s)

Mormo maura (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena maura Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena lemur Meinecke, 1775 = Mania maura maurisca Stauder, 1928 = Mormo maura cypriaca Hacker, 1996. [9, 10]

Old Lady.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7416

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Forewing length

30—33 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, Crete, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia,Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland ), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasus, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga. [3].
It is distributed disjunctively in Europe. It is very rare in Northern Europe and Northern Germany. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The front wings are up to 3.3 cm long — a large animal. All the wings have a jagged edge, they are dark, brown, and the middle field is even darker. [85].

General info about Imago

Habitats: wet areas of the area. [85].

Imago lifespan

Butterflies fly from July to August. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Prunus, Crataegus, Ulmus, Salix, Betula, Euonymus. [28].
Ива, ольха, кульбаба, яснотка. [85].

Larva lifespan

The caterpillars live from August to May. Pupation of Mormo maura takes place in a dense spider nest on the ground. [85].

Subspecies of Mormo maura

Mormo maura maurisca Staudinger, 1928. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov, Paolo Mazzei.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org