Adscita Schmidti
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Adscita schmidti is a butterfly fromthe ram family (Zygaenidae).
features
The moths reach a forewing length of 10.0 to 13.5 millimeters in the males and 9.0 to 13.0 millimeters in the females. The head, thorax and legs have a green or bluish green shimmer. The abdomen is brownish green and has only a slight sheen. The antennae have a bluish green shimmering shaft and consist of 36 to 42 segments. The forewings are either densely scaled or almost translucent . The top of the forewing is dark green, dark bluish green, light green or golden green. The gloss is variable and can be completely absent. The hind wings are dark gray or light gray and either opaque or translucent. The undersides of the wings are gray.
The moths are extremely variable in terms of color, size and shine. Like Adscita alpina and Adscita statices, A. schmidti occurs in both dry and moist habitats. In all three species there are habitat-related differences in the habitus and the number of antennae segments. In A. schmidti these are less pronounced than in the two similar species. The specimens of the populations in the mountains of central Spain are larger and darker in color than those of the provinces of Cuenca , Teruel and southern Spain. The large specimens with slightly translucent wings and light green color that occur in the humid areas of northern Spain resemble A. statices and can only be distinguished from this species by genital morphology.
In the males, the valves each have a very short triangular ventral and dorsal tooth distally , which can sometimes be reduced. The aedeagus is small and slender and has two slender, straight cornuti of equal length. The 8th sternite is rounded at the rear end and extends to the rear end of the segment.
In females, the antrum is funnel-shaped. The proximal part of the ductus bursae has a smooth surface and is heavily sclerotized . Distally , it is slender and straight and ends in a rectangular widening into which the translucent, kinked and tortuous distal part of the ductus bursae joins laterally . The corpus bursae is spherical.
The egg is light yellow.
The caterpillar has a black-brown head, the prothorax is black-brown on the back. The body is yellowish white and drawn with broad dark brown back and side back lines. The sides are brownish green with a narrow ventrolateral line. The ventral side is yellowish green. The warts are yellowish-brown, the body is provided with multi-spiny tubercles , which can be seen as black dots at low magnification.
The pupa is light brown, the cocoon is brownish white and covered with soil and leaves.
Similar species
Adscita statices is lighter in color than the specimens of A. schmidti found in central and southern Spain, the hind wings are more translucent . But there are also specimens in northern Spain that are outwardly identical to the similar species. The similar species occurs in Spain only in the Pyrenees .
Copies of Adscita mannii from Italy and South East Europe are similar to those of populations of A. schmidti that occur in central and southern Spain. The similar species, however, is smaller and the forewing tops are much lighter and more golden-green in color. Both types can be distinguished genitally morphologically .
distribution
Adscita schmidti is common in the Iberian Peninsula west of the Ebro . The species inhabits moist meadows in wetlands and dry meadows in sandy or rocky regions.
biology
The females lay the eggs in large groups on the underside of the leaves. In moist habitats, the caterpillars develop on meadow sorrel ( Rumex acetosa ), in dry habitats on small sorrel ( Rumex acetosella ). The moths fly from May to August.
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d C. M. Naumann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae . 1st edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3 , pp. 153 (English).
literature
- CM Naumann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae . 1st edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3 (English).
Web links
- Adscita schmidti at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved April 23, 2011