Grizzled Skipper
Small cube - Skipper ( Pyrgus malvae )
The Little Cube Dickkopffalter or mauve cube spot ( Pyrgus malvae ) is a butterfly of the family of the skipper ( Hesperiidae ).
- 2.1 Flight Times
- 6.1 Notes and references
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 18 to 22 millimeters. The wing tops are colored brown to black-brown and have numerous white spots and a white cube and black dotted edge. In parallel to this edge extend further inward small white spots. The undersides of the hind wings are gray -brown and also have white spots. Sometimes copies come with extensive white patches in front of the front wings.
The caterpillars are about 19 mm long. They are colored yellow green and have a delicate green topline. They are colored yellow between the segments more. Her head is black. Her whole body is covered with very short, white hair.
Similar Species
- Zweibrütiger Dice Dickkopffalter ( Pyrgus armoricanus )
- Anvil spot Cube Dickkopffalter ( Pyrgus onopordi )
- Red Dice Dickkopffalter ( Spialia Sertorius )
Occurrence
The Little Cube Dickkopffalter comes in most of Europe, except in the far north, in parts of Turkey and Central Asia to Korea before up to a height of 1,900 meters. It is found almost everywhere in Central Europe and frequently, but the populations are declining. He lives in dry and warm areas, such as dry grass, and rocky areas, but also in wetlands such as fens and wet fen meadows.
Flight Times
The animals fly in one or sometimes two generations from May to early July or April to early June and late July to August.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed exclusively on rosaceous plants such as Reddish cinquefoil ( Potentilla heptaphylla ), vulgar Agrimony ( Agrimonia eupatoria ) rarely also of Small burnet ( Sanguisorba minor) and skipjack meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria ).
Development
The females lay their spherical and strongly ribbed eggs individually on the leaves or other parts of forage crops. The caterpillar spins after hatching a vice Unfolded sheet firmly and then lives in this house which always renewed, and size is enlarged. They pupate in the soil next to the plant in a food made from spun leaf residues and strands cocoon. This winter the animals. They rarely hatch in the fall.
Threats and conservation
- Red List BRD: V ( near threatened ).