Heliothis viriplaca
Carding - Sonneneule ( Heliothis viriplaca )
The carding - Sonneneule ( Heliothis viriplaca ) or Kardeneule is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
Features
Butterfly
The wingspan of the moth is about 28 to 32 millimeters. The ground color of the forewings varies in different yellowish and brownish tints. The middle shade is always very dark, sometimes reddish brown and runs relatively straight on the back edge to. Near the apex of a wedge of dark spot can be seen. Ring, kidney and tenon blemishes are blurred or missing. Click on the yellow hind wings there is a large black center spot and a broad dark seam band, which has a yellow spot directly at the hem. The fringes are colored light yellow.
Caterpillar
Adults caterpillars vary in color from gray-green to yellow -gray to reddish gray and show more corrugated, bright longitudinal lines. Back side back and side lines are whitish. They also have a fine, short, bristle-like hairs.
Similar Species
Warnecke moorland Sonneneule ( Heliothis maritima ) is distinguished by the very obliquely converging to the posterior margin means tie, the slightly constricted middle shade as well as the slightly narrower forewings.
Distribution and habitat
The carding - Sonneneule is distributed from north-west Africa and the Canary Islands throughout much of Europe and most of Asia to Japan, Korea and Sakhalin. In the south, it penetrates to Kashmir and Myanmar. As a migrant butterfly she reached in some years also areas in the north Fennoskandinaviens. North of the Alps occur area, on both indigenous and immigrant individuals. The heat -loving species occurs mainly on dry grassland areas, fallow land, heathland and on sunny slopes and embankments and the edges of sand and gravel pits.
Way of life
The moths are diurnal and nocturnal visit in the sunshine like a wide variety of flowers and come in the evening occasionally artificial light sources. They fly in two generations in May and June and in July and August. The caterpillars feed preferentially on the flowers and seeds of many different plants. These include Nottingham Catchfly ( Silene nutans ), White Campion ( Silene latifolia ), Salad Burnet ( Sanguisorba minor ) and various restharrow ( ononis ), sweet clover ( Melilotus ), artemisia (Artemisia ), Knapweed (Centaurea ), and Zichorienarten (Cichorium ). The species overwinters as a pupa.
Endangering
The frequency of the card - Sonneneule in Germany vary tremendously, fly to the native animals more individuals in different numbers as migrant moths. The species is, however, classified on the Red List of Threatened Species as not at risk. Only in Baden- Württemberg, is conducted on the early warning as well as in the far north as a pure migrant moths.