Dichagyris musiva
Alpine meadows full - Erdeule ( Dichagyris ( Albocosta ) musiva )
The alpine meadows full - Erdeule ( Dichagyris ( Albocosta ) musiva earlier in the combination Ochropleura musiva ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
Features
Butterfly
The wingspan of the butterfly is 38 to 44 millimeters. The front wings are maroon or red-brown and without markings relative to the base color. The Costalrand has from the root to about the height of the light bright rimmed kidney blemish a wide, straight, cream white stripes. This flows into each other with the ring stain and forms a kind of tooth. The kidney is surrounded blemish cream. It is a short, black root line available. The hind wings are whitish with musiva with a light brown edge and clearly pronounced veins.
Egg, caterpillar, pupa
The egg is hemispherical, white in color and heavily ribbed towards the pole. The caterpillar is dirty reddish yellow to yellowish brown, with dark longitudinal bands and oblique stripes, brighter topline and poorly developed secondary ridgelines. The pupa is reddish brown and has two sharp thorns on the cremaster.
Similar Species
- Hellrandige Erdeule ( Ochropleura plecta (Linnaeus, 1761 ) ) is, with a wingspan of 28-34 mm significantly smaller
- Ochropleura leucogaster Freyer, 1831, with a wingspan 32 to 36 mm in diameter is also smaller
Geographical distribution and habitat
The species occurs locally in some mountainous parts of Europe, Turkey, Armenia, the Caucasus, Turkestan, Asia Minor, the southern parts of Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet and western China before. She prefers hilly and mountainous, dry terrain to a height of about 2500 meters.
Way of life
The moths are mostly nocturnal, flying from June to September and visit after Osthelder in the Alps, the flowers of bladder campion ( Silene vulgaris), moreover, bait and artificial light sources. The caterpillars are polyphagous in September found on herbaceous plants, for example on Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus ), meadows bedstraw ( Galium mollugo ), as well as Rauhaariger cress ( Arabis hirsuta ) and dandelion (Taraxacum ). They overwinter and pupate mainly in April.
Endangering
In Germany, the Alps mat Erdeule is secured only at a few places in Bavaria before, is extremely rare and is classified on the red list of threatened species as a species with a geographical restriction (Category R). In Baden- Württemberg Albocosta musiva came up in the thirties of the twentieth century before the Swabian Alb and then died out for unknown reasons. Occasionally it is found north of the Alps as immigrants.