Maple tooth spinner

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Maple tooth spinner
Maple tooth spinner (Ptilodon cucullina)

Maple tooth spinner ( Ptilodon cucullina )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Toothed Moth (Notodontidae)
Subfamily : Notodontinae
Genre : Ptilodon
Type : Maple tooth spinner
Scientific name
Ptilodon cucullina
( Denis & Schiffermüller , 1775)

The maple toothed moth ( Ptilodon cucullina ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of toothed spinners (Notodontidae).

features

Imago

The moths reach a wingspan of 30 to 40 millimeters. They have yellow-brown to red-brown colored wings and on the outer edge of the forewings a white-gray band, which is interrupted by a brownish spot with a narrow dark stripe. This light-colored band clearly distinguishes the moth from the otherwise similar camel toothed spinner ( Ptilodon capucina ).

egg

The egg is flat and domed and white-gray in color.

Caterpillar

The caterpillars are about 30 millimeters long. They are either light green or light yellow. The back is almost white. There is a contiguous dark back spot on the front four segments. Segments five and six have low back humps, the eleventh segment a higher hump with a red tip.

Doll

The pupa is dark red-brown or black-brown in color with a round anal end.

Synonyms

  • Ptilodontella cucullina
  • Lophopteryx cuculla

Occurrence

The species is widespread in Central Europe, but nowhere common. It lives in different habitats where its forage plants grow, such as B. on warm slopes, in mixed deciduous forests, clearings and parklands.

Way of life

The nocturnal moths fly annually in two generations from early May to late June and in an incomplete second generation from late July to mid-August. You like to fly to artificial light sources . The eggs are laid in groups on the leaves and branches of the forage plants. The caterpillar pupates in a loose web on the ground. The overwintering takes place in the pupal stage.

Food of the caterpillars

The caterpillars feed mainly on field maple ( Acer campestre ) and sycamore maple ( Acer pseudoplatanus ).

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heiko Bellmann : The new cosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 , p. 244.
  2. ↑ Walter Forster , Theodor A. Wohlfahrt : The butterflies of Central Europe. Volume 3: Weirdos and Swarmers. (Bombyces and Sphinges). Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1960, DNB 456642196 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Koch : We identify butterflies. Volume 2: Bears, Spinners, Swarmers and Drills in Germany. 2nd, expanded edition. Neumann, Radebeul / Berlin 1964, DNB 452481929 .

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