Orthosia gracilis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Orthosiini → genus Orthosia → subgenus Cororthosia → species Orthosia gracilis

Species name(s)

Orthosia (Cororthosia) gracilis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Noctua gracilis [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Phalaena (Noctua) lepida Brahm, 1791 = Bombyx sparsus Haworth, 1803. [9, 10]

Powdered Quaker.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

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; #26. Predbaikalsky.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Finland France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, 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, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian,South Ural. [3].
Habitat: Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Front wing up to 1.8 cm long, color may vary from individual to individual within the gray / taupe / brown, the top of the front wings - acute-angled. [5].

General info about Imago

Venues with butterfly - floodplains of streams and rivers, wet edge of the forest and meadows. [5].

Imago lifespan

Moths fly during flowering willow, from late March to late May. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Herbaceous plants. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars early dark gray scoops live from May to early June. [5].

Overwintering stage

Pupa. [5].

Subspecies of Orthosia gracilis

Orthosia gracilis pallidior (Staudinger, 1888). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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)