Lime-speck Pug
Mondfleckiger Pug ( Eupithecia centaureata )
The Mondfleckige Pug ( Eupithecia centaureata ) is a moth of the family of tensioner ( Geometridae ).
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Features
Imago
The moths have a wingspan of 15-24 mm. The front wings are in the color white, gray-white to slightly brownish white. The front edge is often dark in color, but usually interrupted by white areas. Frequently, the Vorrand on even some darker spots. Most striking is a large, dark spot in the middle of the forewing, and often followed by a slightly brighter spot on the front edge of the forewing. More or less clearly are also four jagged lines cross. The terminal cross line can often be white and be accompanied by a brown shade. The hind wings also show jagged transverse lines, which are often traced brown. The trailing edge is often dyed dark.
Egg
When storing the egg is initially whitish and later yellowish. The surface has a pit pattern.
Caterpillar
The caterpillars are relatively long and whitish, yellowish or greenish. The back line is red or green, sometimes interrupted. The side strips are colored accordingly and also many interruptions.
Doll
The brownish doll is relatively short. The cremaster is wide, and the short tip 8 has fine bristles.
Way of life
The species is flying in Central Europe usually in two generations from mid-April to June and from July to September but regionally something different. In the north of its range and in cooler areas only one generation is formed. In the south of the area of distribution, the butterflies fly all year round in several generations. The moths fly at dusk and at night, and are attracted to the light. They suck the nectar of flowers. The caterpillars are polyphagous ( about 50 species), such as the flowers of the beach - silver herb ( Lobularia maritima ), raspberry (Rubus idaeus ), the Real St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum ), the Small burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga ), the field - bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ), meadow Clary (Salvia pratensis), oregano (Origanum vulgare), European goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea ) and the meadow knapweed (Centaurea jacea ). They feed on the flowers and seed heads of the food plants. The doll also wintered.
Occurrence
The species occurs in open forests, forest edges, in gardens and parks, but also on sunny slopes and semi-dry junipers. In Central Europe it is detected in the low mountain range to about 900 m, in the Alps up to 1500 m.
Dissemination
The species is widespread throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor to Syria, Lebanon and Israel. It occurs to southern Scandinavia and around the Baltic Sea in the north. In the east, the range extends over the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus area over Siberia to the Amur region.