Limenitis camilla
White Admiral ( Limenitis camilla )
The Little Kingfisher ( Limenitis camilla ) is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ).
- 3.1 food of the caterpillars
- 3.2 Dining Falter
- 3.3 Flight times and caterpillars
- 3.4 Development
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 45-52 millimeters. Your wing tops are colored black brown and wear a wide binding of white spots that form around an open forward semicircle over the two pairs of wings with open wings. On the fore wings, the binding is slightly different irregularly shaped than on the hind wings. A few minor white spots are also found between the bond and the wing outer edge. Between the binding and the outer edge of both wing pairs are running two rows of small, inconspicuous dark spots. These spots are clearly visible on the wing undersides, as they have rather a dark, a black orange color. The white bandage the top, which is finely lined with black is dominant. At the outer edge and also at the wing root, there are more white areas adjacent to the sometimes dark spots. The body of the butterfly is on the underside white to blue-gray, dark color on the top. Only the abdomen tip may be adjacent angestäubt whitish at the white bandage. The males have a slightly pointed tapered wing shape, and their white band is also slightly narrower.
The caterpillars are about 27 mm long. They are colored green, on the side they have a bright line. Your head capsule is dark brown and thorny. The body is provided with two rows of different length, brown and branched thorns.
Similar Species
- Southern White Admiral ( Limenitis reducta )
- Great Purple Emperor ( Apatura iris )
- Large Kingfisher ( Limenitis populi )
- Black mourning butterfly ( Neptis rivularis )
Occurrence
The animals arrive in Europe and Asia, east to Japan before, but missing in the Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula and north of Denmark. It is the most widespread species of the genus Limenitis. She lives in humid forests, especially in lowland forests and in the mountains.
Way of life
The moths suck rarely on flowers but primarily on moist soil sites, animal droppings and on honeydew from aphids. They fly differently than the Great Kingfisher very close to the ground and can be found on and abfliegend especially on narrow, shady and covered with dense deciduous forest trails in small groups.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed mainly of Red Honeysuckle ( Lonicera xylosteum ), rarely by other honeysuckles, Common Snowberry ( Symphoricarpos albus) and honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). The little kingfishers need shady, standing at humid location plants that also grow near the flight places the moth.
Food of moths
The moths are found occasionally sucking on moist soil or horse apples. Human sweat is also used. In addition, various, white-flowered inflorescences of umbelliferous plants, dwarf elder ( Sambucus ebulus ), yarrow (Achillea ), privet ( Ligustrum ) and violet flowers of various thistles and scabious ( knautia ) be used as a nectar plant.
Flight times and caterpillars
The animals fly in a generations from mid-June to mid-August. The caterpillars can be found in August and after winter to early June.
Development
The females lay their green, strongly bristled eggs singly on the upper side, lower side as usually at the blade tip of the forage from. On a shrub but there are usually several eggs, they can be found near usually on the ground in the shady areas. The resulting hatching caterpillars feed initially from the blade tip on either side of the midrib and sit in feeding breaks on this. This rib is even extended by feces and is called Kotrippe. At the end of the summer, the young caterpillar builds after the second molt from a sheet and a bag of silk, called Hibernarium in which takes place the winter. In winter you can easily see these bags on the otherwise bare bush. The start about eight millimeters measured caterpillar shrinks by drying out over the winter to a length of about three millimeters. In spring, the first sprouting buds are already eaten. They develop rapidly until it until early June are about the end of May verpuppungsreif. Pupation takes place on the underside of leaves in a green Stürzpuppe. The doll wears on the head side two characteristic stub -like extensions and is patterned with a plurality of metallic stains. On the back there is another outgrowth of this and the edge of the abdomen are dark reddish brown. After about 14 days, slips of the moths.
Threats and conservation
- Red List BRD: 3 (endangered ).