Clostera anastomosis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Notodontidae → subfamily Pygaerinae → genus Clostera → species Clostera anastomosis

Species name(s)

Clostera anastomosis (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena anastomosis Linnaeus, 1758 = Neoclostera insignior Kiriakoff, 1963 = alticaudagrisea Retzius, 1783. [9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #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; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

Wingspan

34—40 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden , Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland)?Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, 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, 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, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside,Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Вся Европа. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan: 34-40 mm. [PC93].
Длина переднего крыла в районе 2 см, могут встречаться более светлые и более темные особи. [85].

General info about Imago

Лёт в таких местах, как пойменные луга, вдоль ручьев и рек, в парках. [85].

Imago lifespan

У тополевой кисточницы бывает два, а иногда и все три поколения, начиная с середины мая и заканчивая августом, все генерации перекрываются во времени. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Populus, sometimes Salix. [28].
Ива, тополь, осина. [85].

Larva lifespan

Личинки Clostera anastomosis обитают на деревьях с сентября по май и с июня по июль. [85].

Overwintering stage

Зимующей стадией C. anastomosis служит гусеница, что очень необычно для рода Clostera, все прочие представители которого зимуют на стадии куколки либо яйца. [85].

Subspecies of Clostera anastomosis

Clostera anastomosis anastomosis. [9]
C. a. tristis Staudinger, 1887. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Irina Nikulina.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[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
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov