Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pterophoroidea → family Pterophoridae → subfamily Pterophorinae → genus Emmelina → species Emmelina monodactyla

Species name(s)

Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) = Alucita monodactyla Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena bidactyla Hochenwarth, 1785 = albodactyla (Fabricius, 1794) = Pterophorus cineridactylus Fitch, 1854 = Pterophorus naevosidactylus Fitch, 1854 = Pterophorus pergracilidactylus Packard, 1873 = Pterophorus barberi Dyar, 1903 = Pterophorus pictipennis Grinnell, 1908. [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; #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; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky.

Forewing length

9—10 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

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

Larva lifespan

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Imago.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Pterophorus monodactylus [5].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland *, Ireland, 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, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Spain ( mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus,Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily , Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Faroe Islands, Finland,France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Average -Uralsky, Tuva, South West Siberian,South Ural. [3].
Moderate Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - about 1 cm. Wings of reddish-yellow, pale yellow or pale gray. The front wings are narrow, the rear of the three blades with a fringe, alone closing the front wings. [5].

General info about Imago

It flies through the gardens and sparse forests. [5].

Imago lifespan

Begin to fly in June hibernates. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Field bindweed. [5].

Larva lifespan

Spring. [5].

Pupa

Located in the soil. Color - first blood red, then brown. [5].

Overwintering stage

Imago. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Tom Tams.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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)