Adscita statices
Dock - Grünwidderchen ( Adscita statices )
The dock - Grünwidderchen ( Adscita statices ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of burnet ( Zygaenidae ) and is also known as Sorrel Grünwidderchen or sometimes referred to as Mean Grünwidderchen because it is the most common type of this family. Behind this a species complex of two very closely related to each other populations whose taxonomic ( and nomenclatural ) Status hides ( type - subspecies - a single variable species ) still needs to be further clarified.
- 4.1 Synonyms
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
The forewing length is 12.0 to 15.5 mm in the male, the female, 11.5 to 13.5 millimeters. Head, Antenna, thorax, legs and abdomen are shiny green, thorax sometimes blue-green shimmer. The front wings are broad with a clear hem less shiny, usually blue-green, sometimes green to yellow-green. The fringes are blackish gray. The hind wings are moderate, wide brightened with a little trimmed hem, slightly transparent, blackish gray and against the base. The bottom of both pairs of wings is gray.
The eggs are oval, pale yellow and are stored in groups of 20 to 40 eggs on the underside of the host plant.
The caterpillar is greenish white, yellowish or reddish, reddish brown on the back at the sides, with lateral side stripes.
The pupa is pale brown and is located in a whitish, thin cocoon near the Earth.
Similar Species
- Rockrose - Grünwidderchen, Adscita geryon
- Knapweed Grünwidderchen, Adscita globulariae
Dissemination
The species is widespread throughout central Europe, including northern Spain, England and Scandinavia to western Siberia and the main ridge of the Alps. The animals can be found both on wet meadows and on dry heathland. In the mountains they are found to approximately 1500 meters.
Way of life
The moths are diurnal, but flying in cloudy weather hardly. The flight food to flowers usually ends in the early afternoon, the mating flight starts about three hours before the onset of dusk. The caterpillars live after hatching from the egg to the first wintering minierend. After that, they feed preferentially from the leaves of the meadow sorrel ( Rumex acetosa ). They live from August, overwinter and pupate in May of the following year.
System
The dock - Grünwidderchen occurs in two ecotypes with different habitats and different flying time. Reichl separated the ecotypes of Grünwidderchens into two types, namely the " Trockenrasenart " statices and the " Feuchtwiesenart " heuseri. Genitalmorphologisch However, there are no differences. Regarding the probe has heuseri about 32 to 36 antennal segments, while there are at statices 38 to 45. Differently are the flight times: heuseri flies in May / June on damp meadows, while statices flies in July / August on sandy ( dry ) area according to the different flight times is also the flower food differently. heuseri sucks and rests almost exclusively on the flowers of the cuckoo - campion ( Lychnis flos- cuculi ), while statices preferred to mountain Echeveria ( Jasione montana), Ähriger speedwell ( Veronica spicata ) and beach thrift ( Armeria elongata ) sucks. Tarmann found that the caterpillars of statices and heuseri in all stages are identical and confirmed that there is not the slightest genital difference. Fiedler and Nässig take the view that one should, in the case of the two taxa statices and heuseri the ecological vicariance taxonomically expressed by the fact that it evaluates both taxa as subspecies or " small species ".
Synonyms
- Procris statices
- Ino statices