Jordanita hispanica
Jordanita hispanica is a butterfly of the family of burnet ( Zygaenidae ).
- 4.1 Notes and references
Features
Males have a forewing length 9.1 to 14.2 mm. The females have narrower wings and are much smaller with a forewing length of 6.4 to 9.0 millimeters. Specimens from Spain are larger than those from France. To the east of the Pyrenees occur on large specimens with dark green shimmering front wing tops. These were a subspecies J. h danieli ( Alberti, 1937) described. Head, thorax and abdomen shining light green or bluish green. The antennae are very slender and combed short, consisting of 36 to 38 segments. The front upper wing surface shimmers yellowish green, gold green or bluish green. The rear upper wing surface is light gray and slightly translucent. The wing undersides are light gray and have no shimmer of scales.
In the males, the aedeagus has a distinctive pointed cornutus. This has a broad rounded base with a slightly prickly surface and a very long and slender tooth-like distal portion. The 8th Abdominalsternit reaches the rear edge of the segment.
In females, the ostium is wide. The pocket-like antrum is provided with a proximal and distal sclerotic ring translucent. It is smooth and has laterally a transparent U-shaped structure. The distal part of the ductus bursae is translucent, proximally broad and furrowed. He is slender, bent and twisted slightly distally. The corpus bursae is ovoid and bursae at the insertion of the ductus and the ductus seminalis relatively wide. The 8th sternite has a short, medial rearward processus.
The egg is yellowish green.
There is only a description of the third stage (L3 ) to bead. Consequently, the head is blackish brown, the translucent chest segment is provided with an inverse, blackish brown T -shaped sclerotization. The body is light green and has almost no further drawing on.
The other caterpillar stages, the doll and the cocoon have not been described.
Similar Species
In Spain and France J. hispanica comes along with Jordanita budensis, Jordanita notata, Jordanita subsolana, Jordanita globulariae and Jordanita before vartianae. The sympatric species have a similar habit and pointed probe.
Jordanita subsolana is larger and darker, the fore wings shimmer almost not. The antennae are longer and have a longer meshing with the males, the females are strongly serrated.
Jordanita globulariae and Jordanita vartianae can be easily distinguished from J. hispanica by abpinselt the scales on the last abdominal segment. In the case of J. hispanica in the males reaches the 8th sternite to the posterior border of the segment, with the similar species it covers only half of the segment. In females, the asymmetric ostium is clearly visible.
Jordanita budensis also has short antennae, but the combing is longer in males and in females, the sensors are more cut. In the males, the last Abdominalsternit over the rear edge of the segment reaches beyond.
Jordanita notata is larger than J. hispanica, which sensors are slightly shorter, but the meshing equal to short for both types. In females, there are no external distinguishing features, so that a reliable separation of the two species is only genitalmorphologisch possible.
Dissemination
Jordanita hispanica is common in Spain, Portugal and southern France. The species colonized rocky, dry grassland in the plane or on slopes and steppe habitats.
Biology
The caterpillars live in the south of France at the rispigen knapweed (Centaurea paniculata ). The moths fly in the late morning and suck especially on the flowers of scabious ( knautia ), Marsh ( scabiosa) and knapweed species ( Centaurea ). During the hottest time of the day they rest and put the flight activity continued in the late afternoon.