Adscita albanica
Adscita albanica is a butterfly of the family of burnet ( Zygaenidae ).
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Features
The moths reach a wing length 9.5 to 12.0 mm in males and 8.5 to 11.5 mm in females. Head, thorax, legs and abdomen shining dark bluish green. The antennae are black and have a bluish tinge. They consist of 42 to 45 segments. The meshing is proximally and distally very long short. The last eight or nine segments form platelets. The front upper wing surface shimmers dark bluish-green, green or golden green, the gloss is variable. The rear upper wing surface is blackish brown. The underwings are black gray.
The male genital is very large and heavily sclerotized. The distal Valven have a large ventral processus. The aedeagus is strong and has a very large, straight, pointed cornutus. The 8th Abdominalsternit is square and covered only the last third of the segment.
The females have a large Präbursa, which is absent in all similar ways.
The egg is colored egg-shaped and greenish yellow.
The caterpillar has a brown staining. The back and side back lines are black, dark brown, the side lines. The body is fully equipped with the exception of the warts with more spiny tubercles, which can be seen as small black dots at low magnification. The head is shiny black, the mandibles are dark brown. The Prothorakalsegment is dark brown, the Peritrema, an annular sclerite surrounding the respiratory openings is light brown. The Torah calf A are brown, the abdominal feet yellowish gray. On the 10th abdominal segment there is a pair of dark brown patches.
The doll shines brown and is eight to ten millimeters long.
Similar Species
Adscita mannii is in Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece before sympatric with A. albanica. It is very variable in size and coloring. A. albanica can easily be distinguished from A. mannii on the basis of the longer Fühlerkämmung in the males. The determination based on external characteristics, however, should always be confirmed by a genitalmorphologische investigation.
Adscita obscura comes in Macedonia, in southwestern Bulgaria and Greece sympatric with A. albanica ago. She flies about a month earlier and has sensor from mannii - geryon type. Both types can be distinguished genitalmorphologisch.
In many areas of South and Eastern Europe Adscita geryon comes before sympatric with A. albanica. It is usually smaller and has shorter probes with shorter meshing with the males. Both types can be distinguished genitalmorphologisch.
Subspecies
It is believed that albanica A. is represented by a number of sub- types. Currently, for such a separation too little material evidence available. Thus, specimens from the Alps and the Apennines are very large and dark colored, while those are smaller and brighter from the Balkans. Specimens from the Caucasus are golden green.
Dissemination
The disjunct distribution area includes deposits in southeastern France, in Switzerland ( Canton of Valais), in Italy, Slovenia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, in the south of European Russia and the Caucasus. Be colonized open scrubland with grassy clearings or glades in moist evergreen oak forests.
Biology
The females lay eggs in groups of 10 to 30 pieces down so that they do not touch each other. The food plant is the blood red cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum ). In captivity, the caterpillars feed on other cranesbill species, as well as herons beak types and the first two stages also tracked at Rockrose ( Helianthemum ) and Ampferarten ( Rumex ). The caterpillars pupate in a white, loosely spun cocoon in the soil under the plant feed. The moths suck cranesbill flowers. During the day they rest on the bottom of the flowers or on the stems and leaves of the food plant. The moths fly from late May (Crimea ) to mid-June (Albania, Switzerland ).