Thyrididae
Arniocera auriguttata
The window spot ( Thyrididae ) are a family of butterflies (Lepidoptera ). Of these, about 760 species are now known to the world, 450 more a collection of London's Natural History Museum are still unnamed. In Europe, only a kind, Clematis Window spot ( thyristor fenestrella ) ago. Their main area of distribution are the tropics and subtropics, where they mostly inhabit forests in lower elevations.
Features
The moths reach a wingspan from 12 to 72 millimeters and have some similarity with tensioners. Their forewings are relatively wide and usually colored brown or reddish brown. Some species mimic dead leaves ( mimesis ). In some species the wings have scale- free areas. Only a few species have very small simple eyes ( ocelli ) in addition to the compound eyes. The latter surface is sometimes covered with fine hairs. The sensors are usually filiform but also combed or pinnate. Your Maxillarpalpen are very short, the labial palps are usually three, rarely of two elements, the proboscis is regressed or stunted in many ways. If he is developing normally, he is ungeschuppt at the base. The females have a short ovipositor ( ovipositor ). Some species of the subfamily Siculodinae have Tympanalorgane at the wing base, but in all species of the family they are absent on the thorax and abdomen.
The caterpillars have apart from the Torah a calf every four abdominal pairs of legs and the Nachschieber.
Way of life
The day -, night - or night-active moths sitting at rest with raised middle leg Paareen. They also stretching their wings strongly upward, with the wing leading edges form the highest point.
The caterpillars live mostly in rolled leaves or bore into branches, some also cause plant galls. They feed on 30 plant families, especially on spurge family ( Euphorbiaceae ), Leguminosae ( Fabaceae ), Sapotengewächsen ( Sapotaceae ), Myrtengewächsen ( Myrtaceae ) leaf fruit crops ( Dipterocarpaceae ), caper plants ( Capparaceae ) and wing seed plants ( Combretaceae ).
System
The windows were formerly counted spot to the superfamily Pyraloidea because you thought they were related to the Zünslern ( Pyralidae ). The caterpillars of both families are very similar, but the moths have no Tympanalorgane on the abdomen and Their proboscis is not scaled, so they are now counted as a separate superfamily, the Thyridoidea.
Species ( Europe)
- Clematis Window spot ( thyristor fenestrella )