Panthea coenobita
Nun ( Panthea coenobita )
The nun ( Panthea coenobita ), also known as Hochwald Fichteneule or monk, is a butterfly (moth ) from the subfamily of Pantheinae within the cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 6.1 Notes and references
- 6.2 Literature
Features
The nun is a medium sized butterfly with a wingspan 41-48 mm. Head and thorax are white colored with black spots irregularly distributed. The front wings are in the color white with irregularly distributed black spots and lines. In the basal and Subterminalfeld dominates the white base color. Median lines, Subterminalfeld and the area with the flaws and to Costalrand back is edged with white. The outer shaft line is strongly serrated. The kidneys blemish is edged white and black. The ring stain is white with a black spot. The fringes of the front and rear wings are alternately white and black. The hind wings are dark gray with irregularly distributed black areas. The Diskalfleck and the outer transverse line are also drawn in black. The drawing of the top of the blades substantially corresponds to the drawing, also on the underside. However, the forewing has overall less white, while leaving the underside of the hind wing has a total of more white parts.
The egg is strongly flattened at the base, the surface has numerous, somewhat irregular longitudinal ribs which do not reach the Mikropylregion. First, it is bright yellow and is reddish yellow later.
The Eiraupe is light brown in color with a black head. Later stages are usually dark brown to black-brown color. These white transverse spots come on the back and brown longitudinal stripes on the sides. In the later stages of the caterpillar is very hairy, with collar-like questions forward tufts of hair.
The doll is rather short and thick. It is shiny reddish-brown to black-brown. The cremaster is short and conical with three long and several very short, curved bristles.
Similar Species
A certain similarity in the drawing, to the nun moth (Lymantria monacha ), the males of which have, however, very strongly combed sensor. In addition, the females are much larger and have a reddish abdomen.
Geographical distribution and habitat
The species occurs from eastern France, Benelux, Central Europe, across Belarus, Ukraine and Central Russia, Siberia and the Far East ( Amur region, northern China, Japan, Korea) before. In the north, the occurrence dates back to the southern Fennoscandia, in the south to northern Italy and the Balkan Peninsula ( here mostly isolated occurrence) and Asia Minor. With the exception of a few isolated occurrences in northern Greece, the kind missing in the Mediterranean regions, and also in the British Isles does not happen the way. An isolated occurrence is known from the central Pyrenees.
The nun prefers to live in coniferous forests.
Way of life
The nun flies from mid-May to early August in one generation, rarely in a second generation. The eggs are laid in small groups of about 10 to 20 directly to the needles of the caterpillar food plants. The caterpillars feed on the needles of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), stone pine (Pinus cembra) and Korean Pine (Pinus koraiensis ) and of the species of the genera larches ( Larix), spruce (Picea ) and fir (Abies ). They can be found from August to October. They pupate in the fall on or in the soil at the base of tree trunks, where the party is also hibernate. The doll can also be two years.
Endangering
The nun is valid only in the city state of Hamburg as an endangered species, in Saxony- Anhalt, is at risk. The holdings in Germany as a whole and the other provinces, however, are not endangered.
System
The populations in the Far East were formerly referred to as a distinct subspecies Panthea coenobita ussuriensis Warnecke, 1917. Fibiger, et al. (2009) but they have reunited with the Nominatunterart. They recognize no subspecies.