Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Pyrameis cardui. [85].

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Austria, Azores, Albania, Andorra, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Iceland, Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands,Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, North Aegean, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine,Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, East Yakutia, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, West Yakut, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelia, Kola,Krasnoyarsk, the Nenets-Novaya Zemlya tundra, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Nizhneobsky, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei, North Okhotsk Sea, the North-Ural, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Average Okhotsk, Average -Uralsky, Sredneobskaya, Tuva,South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
• Burdock is found all over Europe, but overwinters only in the southern part of it. Butterflies living north of the Alps migrate annually. In addition to Europe, Vanessa cardui flies all over the world (including Ireland and Iceland), with the possible exception of South America. I.e., it is present in Africa, Asia, Australia, and even the Sandwich Islands... [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• The length of the front wing is slightly less than 3 cm. On the underside of the hind wings there are 5 characteristic eyes. Both sexes are painted the same. [85].

General info about Imago

• Butterflies are found everywhere where thistles and nettles grow, in the mountains they reach an altitude of 2000 m, but they still prefer dry sunny areas of the terrain-steppes, fields and meadows, avoiding dark forests. The thistle moth is a migratory butterfly that arrives in Europe from North Africa in the spring; during such migrations, thistles can fly in huge flocks of up to a hundred individuals per minute. [85].

Imago lifespan

• V. cardui often gives two (from July to August and from August to September), and sometimes even three generations (Reichholf-Rim, 2002), and can occur from May to October (Nidon et al., 1991). Due to long migrations, local butterflies often fly together with immigrants, which makes it difficult to separate them. In Northern Europe and Great Britain, butterflies appear in June, and in southern and western Europe-as early as April (Moukha, 1979). The first generation is from June (from May — Lampert, 2003) to July, the second — from August to September. [85].

General info about Larva

• The caterpillars are highly variable (Moukha, 1979), but generally light or dark gray, with a yellow striped pattern and yellow spines. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Cirsium, Carduus, Echium, Malva. [28].
• Чертополох, крапива, мать-и-мачеха, бодяк. [85].

Pupa

• The pupal stage lasts about two weeks, the chrysalis itself is gray or brown, with golden spots. Greenish eggs with 16 longitudinal ribs are laid one at a time on the food plant. "Some pupae overwinter." [85].

13.05.2015 20:53, Igor Sakhno

Yes

12.05.2015 18:50, Peter Khramov

Vitaly Gumenyuk in the sense?

07.05.2015 23:57, Igor Sakhno

I found this picture in my zagashnikah - threw itself as something interesting (where, incidentally, on the upper wings of the sling is not enough). Author - Vitaly. If it is lost from the site, I can send it. How to decide?

07.02.2014 15:43, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Over-wintering stage: No formalized data → Imago.

19.07.2013 13:15, Igor Sakhno

Not, like, she was not. There are more open lower wings.

15.07.2013 10:02, Vasiliy Feoktistov

No, I did not.
But not here this hour: http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/2179?

12.07.2013 1:32, Peter Khramov

Basil, you're not such a case Fautua spread?

11.07.2013 23:58, Igor Sakhno

Oh, and where are missing someone interesting photo where the rear wing is not enough dark sling? This more and no.

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