Colias palaeno
Moorland clouded yellow Ling ( Colias palaeno )
The moorland clouded yellow Ling or Lemon Yellow Clouded Yellow ( Colias palaeno ) is a butterfly of the family of White (Pieridae ) in the subfamily of the yellow pieces.
- 3.1 Flight times and caterpillars
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
Characteristics of the adult bees
The moorland clouded yellow Ling has a wingspan 50-56 mm.
The upper wing of the males are whitish, pale yellow, colored with a dark, sharply defined edge that is not pollinated, and red wing fringe. The dark edge is narrower on the hind wings. A small dark spot sits on the edge of Diskoidalquerader the cell on the forewing. The underside of the forewing is yellowish, that of the hind wings is dusted gray-green and yellowish toward the edge. Both wings have a small dark- edged white spot in the cell.
The female is white and the dark edge on the upper wing surface is less sharply defined and otherwise resembles the male. The animals are white with the spread to the north.
Features of the crawler
The young caterpillar is brownish in color and has a dark head. At a later stage it is green with a strong yellow side stripes and short black hair. The caterpillar pupates usually on a branch at the food plant in a green belt doll.
Subspecies
C. palaeno europome is considered by some authors as the only form. She's on top and bottom of strong yellow and the dark edge binding is wider. The edge of the spot in the cell is small, and sometimes is absent.
Similar Species
- Golden Eight ( Colias hyale )
- Hufeisenklee Yellow Ling ( Colias alfacariensis )
- Postilion ( Colias crocea )
- Alps Gelbling ( Colias phicomone )
- Orange Red Clouded Yellow ( Colias myrmidone )
- Colias chrysotheme
- Colias erate
Occurrence
The moorland clouded yellow Ling is distributed from central and northern Europe through Siberia to the Amur and Japan and found in bogs and other wet areas of the food plant of the caterpillar.
He comes in Baden- Württemberg before only in the Black Forest and in Upper Swabia and Bavaria in the high and intermediate marshes of pre-Alpine hills and moor land and the Bavarian Forest. Also in the Austrian Alpine foothills, the species is very rare, more refuges has changed the way around in the Hohe Tauern or in the Enns Valley ( Pürgschachenmoor ).
Way of life
The caterpillar of the moorland clouded yellow Lings lives only on the bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum ) and is therefore bound to breed to Moore, as the plant grows only there. In the vicinity of these Moore sufficient flowering plants need to stand for the butterflies are available, as there are in the moors themselves almost no flowers.
The males fly the moors and the environment at the sun in search of females almost constantly from. This often terrain markers are flown and obstacles such as high tree groups avoided. Where a male to a female, so they orbit each other and rise up to 30 meters on. Towards the end they return to the ground and the male pushes the female by frequent triggering ever deeper until then copulating in the vegetation takes place.
The females lay on sunlit leaf tops of bog bilberry their eggs, the young caterpillars overwinter after the second moult on the plant and pupate until next year.
Flight times and caterpillars
The moth flies from June to July in one generation.
Threats and conservation
The moorland clouded yellow Ling is seriously endangered by the destruction of the marshes and the adjacent habitats and stocks fell sharply. Peat destroys the livelihood of the caterpillars and afforestation of moorland edges with spruce monocultures and conversion of hay meadows (mowing before the end of July ) will destroy the food sources of the moths.
Red List FRG: 2 Red List of Baden- Württemberg: 2 Red List of Bavaria: 2