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Primrose Erdeule ( Diarsia mendica )
The Primrose Erdeule ( Diarsia mendica ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
Features
Butterfly
The moths of the nominate reach a wingspan of 35 to 40 millimeters. When Primrose Erdeule is a species with a very large range in terms of color design. So copies come with yellowish, light brown or reddish brown ground color before the forewing. In most brightened root field sometimes shows a small black spot. Intermediate ring and kidney blemish as well as the inner transverse line are larger black spots. Nearly circular and sometimes beige brown filled emerge the ring blemish, while the kidneys are dark blemish and occasionally strongly constricted. Just as a small black dot appear Zapf blemish. The outer transverse line is thin, double- formed, and often filled light. The hind wings are brown gray without markings.
Egg, caterpillar, pupa
The egg is spherical, strongly flattened at the base, ribbed strong and whitish. Adults caterpillars appear in various brownish hues and are provided with yellowish back - and side- back lines. In between are darker, indistinct angle spots. The side panels have a rotgraue color. On the eleventh segment is a yellow horizontal line. The doll is chestnut brown in color and equipped with two long spines and two shorter bristles on the cremaster.
Similar Species
A certain similarity to the Brown Erdeule ( Diarsia brunnea ), but in which violet-brown hues predominate. The plantain Erdeule ( Diarsia rubi ) and Diarsia florida are less contrast drawn and usually colored a little darker.
Geographical distribution and habitat
Diarsia mendica is a predominantly mid-to northern European art Smaller deposits in southern Europe there is in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains, the Apennines and Calabria, the eastern Balkans to northern Greece. The distribution areas of the subspecies are:
- Diarsia mendica mendica (Fabricius, 1775), in central and northern Europe, except in the northernmost part Fennoskandinaviens,
- Diarsia mendica borealis ( Zetterstedt, 1839), parts of Scandinavia and in Iceland and northern Russia,
- Diarsia mendica thulei (Staudinger, 1891), in the Shetland and Faroe Islands
- Diarsia mendica orkneyensis ( Bytinski Salt, 1939), in the Orkney Islands.
- Diarsia mendica lamentunda ( Alphtraky, 1897), in Siberia to Kamchatka, Mongolia, China and Tibet,
- Diarsia mendica monochromatic ( Boursin, 1963), in the Alborz Mountains and other parts of Iran
- Fibiger and after a further undescribed subspecies in northern Turkey, in Armenia, the Caucasus and other regions of Transcaucasia.
The Primrose Erdeule preferably inhabited sparse forests with blueberry vegetation, heathland, fells and mountain areas. In the Alps, it is still to be found at altitudes of over 2000 meters.
Way of life
The nocturnal moths fly mainly from June to August in one generation a year. You like to visit artificial light sources as well as the bait, occasionally the flowers of butterfly lilac ( Buddleja davidii ), the forest - grass flutter ( Milium effusum ) or the heather ( Calluna vulgaris). The caterpillars are found from September. They feed on various plants, for example by:
- Primroses (Primula )
- Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus),
- Bog bilberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum ) and
- Männerfarn ( Dryopteris filix- mas ).
The caterpillars overwinter and pupate in May of the following year in a hole in the ground.
Endangering
The Primrose Erdeule comes in all federal states in Germany numerous times before and is out on the red list of threatened species as not at risk.