Senta flammea
Welts - Schilfeule ( Senta flammea )
The welts - Schilfeule ( Senta flammea ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
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Features
Butterfly
With a wingspan 33-40 mm, the way one of the smaller owls butterflies. Note the narrow front wings, the very pointy end on Apex. They have a ocher, brown white or reddish gray ground color. At the front edge, they are often easily dusted white gray. Striking is a dark bruise that extends from the root field almost to the hem. The outer transverse line is formed by black dots. Other small, black dots are located in the seam area. The hind wings are bright white or greyish white, with the veins stand out dark.
Caterpillar, and chrysalis
The caterpillars are ivory, have an elongated shape and taper to both sides. On the back and on the sides of some weakly formed, bright, gray framed longitudinal lines are visible. The black-brown, very slender doll has a rounded cremaster, which has two peaks and four bristles.
Similar Species
A certain similarity to the narrow -winged Schilfeule ( Chilodes maritima ), which also has narrow forewings and an ocher tint, but in most cases, instead of the dark bruise two black dots shows. With the slightly smaller oblique wing Striemeneule ( Simyra nervosa ) is only weakly developed longitudinal drawing.
Geographical distribution and habitat
The welts - Schilfeule has a Euro - Siberian distribution. It comes from the south of England to Japan before, but missing on the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean islands, Greece as well as in central and southern Italy. Main habitat are coastal areas overgrown with reed banks of rivers, ponds and lakes and wet meadows, marshes and bogs.
Way of life
In northern regions, the type shows a univoltines behavior and the moths fly from May to June, to the south are also present two generations per year. They are mostly nocturnal and appear occasionally on artificial light sources or baits, the males are in warm weather already active at dusk. Main food plant of the caterpillar is the reed (Phragmites australis). They pupate in the fall pipe stubble or folded reed leaves, where they overwinter.
Endangering
The species occurs in Germany mainly in the northern and central provinces before, especially on the coasts of the North and Baltic Sea to the island of Usedom. It is on the Red List of endangered species in category 3 ( endangered) classified.