Labdia semicoccinea

Labdia semicoccinea is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of the splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

Features

The moths reach a wingspan of 11-14 millimeters. The head is beige brown. The antennae are dark brown and have a white dorsal line. There are three white sections at the probe tip. The thorax is orange brown and has two dorsolateral gray longitudinal lines. The tegulae are lined with orange brown and gray interior. The front wings are orange -brown to on wings midst and yellow ocher in the apical region. On the Costa loader and on the wing inner edge they are narrow lined light yellow. The wings drawing consists of a number of different widths, gray lines. The first is adjacent to the ocher Costallinie. The second begins on the Costa loader near the wing base and is divided in the middle into two lines. The lower of the two lines running along the anal fold. The third line starts at the front wing base and extends above the anal fold to the middle of the orange range. The fourth line is more brownish gray and runs along the pale yellow Dorsallinie, in the middle of it branches out towards the wing center. Located on the inside of the fourth gray line halfway along a bright yellow spot. A narrow brown Costallinie ranges from 1/3 to 3/4 of forewing length. You widens suddenly in the apical region and is interrupted by a gray- white line. At the end of the first gray line is a blackish Subcostalfleck which is basal and distal lined gray white. Opposite, in the dorsal region there is an obliquely inwardly extending, gray mop. A similar, but more gebogender wiper is at the inner angle. At these borders inside a brownish gray, slanting outward line. The fringe scales are ocher- yellow on the Costa loaders, gray-brown at the apex gray-brown and near the inner angle. At the inner angle they have a broad, ocher yellow line. The hind wings are gray, tinged brownish at the apex. The fringe scales are ocher- gray. The abdomen is light gray, the 1st to the 3rd segment is dorsally ocher. The males have bright yellow scented hair tufts on metathorax, which arise directly beneath the hind wing. They are bent inwardly over the abdomen, and partially cover the first three segments.

In the males the right brachium is very long. It tapers distally and has a flattened, highly sclerotized apex. The left brachium broad and forked and half as long as the right one. The Valven are lanceolate and run distally pointed. Before the middle they are narrowest. The left Valvella is very long and narrow and slightly curved. The short aedeagus is located in a very slender, upwardly curved and apically hooked Anellarschlauch and is therefore not visible.

In females, the rear edge of the 7th sternite has a deep indentation. The ostium is narrow. The sterigma extended to a long, strongly sclerotized tube. The ductus bursae is as long as the corpus bursae and very narrow. The corpus bursae is long and pear-shaped, Signa missing.

Dissemination

Labdia semicoccinea is in Japan ( Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu ), South Korea, the Oriental and located in Australia. In Abkhazia (Georgia ), the species was probably introduced. In the Netherlands, found the repeated nature of imported plants and trees from Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Japan.

Biology

The larvae feed in the stems of Cajanus indicus ( Fabaceae ) and various Polyscias species ( Araliaceae ). In the Netherlands, the caterpillars were also imported Palmfarnarten ( Zamia ) and Prunus found and bred donarium. In Georgia, you caught the butterflies in July at the light.

Documents

• Splendor falter
• Cosmopterigidae