Diarsia rubi (Vieweg, 1790)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Noctuini → subtribe Noctuina → genus Diarsia → species Diarsia rubi

Species name(s)

Diarsia rubi (Vieweg, 1790) = Noctua rubi Vieweg, 1790 = Phalaena (Noctua) radica Esper, 1790 = Phalaena (Noctua) bella Borkhausen, 1792 = Noctua quadratum Hübner, [1813] = Caradrina posticata Walker, 1858 = grisea Hormuzaki, 1916 = ochrea Hormuzaki, 1916 = floridoides Dannehl, 1925 = gerontion Schultz, 1934 = borealis Lingonblad, 1936. [9, 10]

Small Square-spot.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #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; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

Forewing length

15—17 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 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova , Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, 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, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky,Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
The range of this species - the whole of Europe up to 2000 m in height. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Front wing - up to 1.7 cm long, it is shortened, it seems cut off, and painted in a reddish-pink-and-gray color. Under the dappled - blackish point field behind the boundary line zatemneno.Shozhy podkraevoy view -Diarsia florida- differs somewhat more weighty casing and purple hues in the color. [5].

General info about Imago

Plantaginaceae scoops found in marshes, swamp forests, along streams. [5].

Imago lifespan

Two generation - from May to June and from July to September. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Wild grasses. [5].

Larva lifespan

Larvae can live from September to April and from July to August. [5].

Overwintering stage

Diarsia rubi winters in the caterpillar stage, the forest floor. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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)