Perigrapha i-cinctum
Perigrapha i- cinctum
Perigrapha i- cinctum is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Features
Butterfly
The wingspan of the butterfly is 37 to 44 millimeters. The basic color of the forewing smoky gray hues dominate. Sometimes also occur brown gray or light reddish überstäubte copies. Ring, kidney, and pin flaws are large, light gray or light brown filled, closely related and usually edged yellowish. The midfield, in particular the area around the blemish is dark brown to black. The indistinctly pronounced wavy shimmering whitish. The hind wings are gray-brown without markings. On the thorax and the first abdominal segment are short hair tufts.
Caterpillar
Younger caterpillars have a green color. Back and side back lines are whitish or yellowish, the yellow side stripes. Adults caterpillars take on a pink hue. Their color pattern is similar to that of the younger stages.
Doll
The brown doll is bluish pruinose and characterized by two long and several short bristles on the cremaster hooks.
Similar Species
- As the sister species Perigrapha scriptobella occurs in the Kopet -Dag Mountains, there are no geographical overlap.
- Perigrapha circumducta is often greater (up to 55 mm wingspan ) than P. i- cinctum and colored contrast. Since the nature in Siberia and the Urals occur to Japan, there is also in this case no geographical overlap.
- The occurrence of Perigrapha heidi are in Hissargebirge and Pamir Mountains, those of Perigrapha centralasiae in some desolate high mountain regions of Central Asia. In order for these species inhabit also completely different regions as Perigrapha i- cinctum.
Geographical distribution and habitat
The occurrence of the species extends locally through southern and south-eastern countries of Europe and Asia Minor. The following sub- types with their distribution areas are known:
- Perigrapha i- i- cinctum cinctum, in the Pannonian Plain
- Perigrapha i- cinctum Gepida, in France and Italy
- Perigrapha i- cinctum slovenica, Slovenia and other Balkan countries
- Perigrapha i- cinctum hethitica, Turkey
Perigrapha i- cinctum is preferred to be found on warm, dry skimmed lawns and on mountain slopes.
Way of life
The moths are mostly nocturnal and visit very much artificial light sources as well as occasionally baits or suck on flowers. Your very early flight time includes the months of March and April. The caterpillars live in May and June. They feed polyphagous from the leaves of various plants, for example of plantain ( Plantago ), sorrel ( Rumex ), strawberry (Fragaria ), chickweed ( Stellaria ), dead nettle ( Lamium ), Knapweed (Centaurea ), Pasque - (Pulsatilla ) or dandelion species ( Taraxacum ). The species overwinters as a pupa in the soil.