Adscita jordani
Adscita jordani is a butterfly of the family of burnet ( Zygaenidae ). The specific epithet honors the Jordanian entomologist Charles Jordan, whose investigations genitalmorphologische the first to describe allowed the determination of the species of the genus Adscita.
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Features
The moths reach a forewing length 10.0 to 11.5 mm in males and from 10.0 to 11.0 mm in females. Head, thorax and legs are hairy and colored gold green or coppery green. The gold-green abdomen is long and has a blunt end. The antennae are very short and shimmering bluish green. They consist of 33 to 35 segments. The comb teeth of the last six to seven segments are fused into toothed platelets. The front upper wing surface is slightly translucent and glows bright green or golden green, sometimes a weak bluish glow is available. The rear upper wing and the wing undersides are dark gray.
In the males, the Valven are strongly sclerotized distally and have a large, ventral, spine -like processus. This is bent at right angles inwardly. The aedeagus is strong and has a short, slender cornutus. The 8th Abdominalsternit covers only the back half of the segment.
In females, the ductus bursae is narrow and only weakly sclerotized. The corpus bursae is spherical. The strongly sclerotized sternite 9 is rectangular and encloses the almost unsklerotisierte ostium.
Similar Species
Adscita statices is larger, has wider front wing and longer sensor. The similar kind does not occur in the central and southern Spain.
Adscita geryon and Adscita Bolivarian are somewhat smaller and have narrower and more densely scaly wings. The front wing tops shimmer intense. The two species are similar in many places sympatric with A. jordani ago, but they fly about a month later.
Adscita schmidti is larger and much darker. The determination based on external characteristics must be verified by a genital examination.
Dissemination
Adscita Jordanian comes in Portugal and Spain ( with the exception of the northeast and the Pyrenees). The species colonized wet grasslands in 400 to 2000 meters altitude.
Biology
About the biology of the species is currently unknown. The moths fly from April ( in the plains) and August ( in the limestone massif of the Picos de Europa ).