Clostera curtula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Clostera curtula (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena curtula Linnaeus, 1758 = alticaudaalba Retzius, 1783. [9, 10]

Chocolate-tip.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 7.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #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; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Wingspan

30—34 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Larva lifespan

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), 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, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Pribaikalskiy, Average -Amursky, Mid-Volzhsky,Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
The area - the whole of Europe to the Arctic Circle in the north. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length of 1.6 to 1.8 cm. At the top of the wings - a dark, sometimes with a red spot inside the limited thin white line (unlikeClostera anachoreta, whose slick extends beyond the white line) . General color of the wings - nut. [5].

General info about Imago

Tailed kistochnitsu easy to find in the marshes, riparian forests and along the banks of reservoirs. [5].

Imago lifespan

From April to June and from July to August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Populus, Salix. [28].
Poplar, aspen and willow. [5].

Larva lifespan

C August to September plus from June to July. [5].

Subspecies of Clostera curtula

Clostera curtula canescens (Graeser, 1892). [10]
C. c. curtula (Linnaeus, 1758). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Vitaly Gumenuk.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

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
[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)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012