Lithophane furcifera (Hufnagel, 1766)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Xylenini → subtribe Xylenina → genus Lithophane → subgenus Lithophane → species Lithophane furcifera

Species name(s)

Lithophane (Lithophane) furcifera (Hufnagel, 1766) = Phalaena furcifera Hufnagel, 1766 = Noctua conformis Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Phalaena angulata Goeze, 1781 = Phalaena (Noctua) bifurca Esper, 1788 = Lithophane (Lithophane) furcifera. [9, 10]

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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; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

Primary colors

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, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and 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, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, 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, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
Its range is Temperate Europe, up to 1800 m high. Missing in Denmark and the Netherlands. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Forewing up to 2 cm, dark brown with a slight reddish tinge, unusually large reniform spot of red-brown color. Unlike the similar scooper Lithophane lamda, there are clearly visible tufts on the abdomen. [85].

General info about Imago

Habitats: water meadows, swamp forests, and swamps [85].

Imago lifespan

From late August to mid-June. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Alnus, Betula, Populus, Salix, Quercus. [28].
Береза, ольха. [85].

Larva lifespan

The caterpillars of the dark gray cow scoops live from late May to July. [85].

Overwintering stage

Overwintering imago. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrej Makara, Andrey Ponomarev.

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