Macdunnoughia confusa (Stephens, 1850)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Plusiinae → tribe Plusiini → subtribe Autoplusiina → genus Macdunnoughia → species Macdunnoughia confusa

Species name(s)

Macdunnoughia confusa (Stephens, 1850) = Plusia confusa Stephens, 1850 = Plusia gutta Guenée, 1852 = Plusia bigutta Staudinger, 1892 = Macdunnoughia monosigna Chou & Lu, 1979 = Macdunnoughia (Macdunnoughia) confusa.

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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; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

14—15 mm.

Wingspan

32—42 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

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June

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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, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland) , Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova,Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Sicily, 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, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelian, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
Kazakhstan Personal communication.
Распространена в Европе южнее Альп, хотя встречается и в Центральной Европе. В Альпах доходит до высоты 1200 м [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 32-42 mm. Personal communication.
Длина переднего крыла составляет около 1,5 см, окрас — фиолетово-серый, чуть светлее по сравнению с металловидкой гамма. На каждом из передних крыльев хорошо заметно белое пятно. [85].

General info about Imago

Металловидка капля летает в теплых, сухих и солнечных местах, ее можно встретить на опушках леса, прогалинах, в пойменных лесах, на полях, а иногда — в садах и парках. Бабочки Macdunnoughia confusa бывают активны как днем, так и в ночное время. [85].

Imago lifespan

Вид дает 2 поколения — с мая до июля и с августа до октября. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Urtica, Achillea, Silene, Matricaria, Artemisia, Anthemis. [28].
Ромашка и другие. [85].

Larva lifespan

Личинки встречаются с сентября до июня и с августа до октября, зимуют. [85].

Overwintering stage

Гусеница. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Irina Nikulina.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Alexander Belousov.

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
[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
Vasiliy Feoktistov, personal communication
Alexander Belousov, personal communication