Tyria jacobaeae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, USSR - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Iceland?, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, 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, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Middle-Volga, Urals Average (?) Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
• Disjunctive Europe. In the north it comes to central Sweden, but there is rarely encountered. In the south, more usually flies through alpine Dahlin. In the Alps - up to 1600 m. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• Fore wing length up to 2 cm. On the upper side - 2 red spots round shape on the edge of the wing - the red stripe on a black background. The top of the rear wings - red. [5].

General info about Imago

• The dry habitats, meadows, sometimes quarry edge of the forest and the banks of reservoirs. Active at night. [5].

Imago lifespan

• May-July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Senecio, Petasites, Tussilago. [28].
• Tyria jacobaeae - polyphage, but her favorite dish leaves are poisonous ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), the poison of the plant absorb the tracks, thus becoming no less toxic. Also ragwort is quite a stern mother and stepmother, and butterbur. [5].

Larva lifespan

• Larvae very remarkable - black and yellow transverse rings - caterpillars are poisonous, and to enhance the effect prefer to stay together in groups and spent only on reaching middle age. [5].

Overwintering stage

• Winters doll. [5].

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